{"id":3197,"date":"2013-05-03T13:53:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2013-05-03T13:53:43","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:53:43","slug":"prospect-union-slams-ofcom-uk-probe-of-bt-superfast-broadband-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/prospect-union-slams-ofcom-uk-probe-of-bt-superfast-broadband-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Prospect Union Slams Ofcom UK Probe of BT Superfast Broadband Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Prospect<\/a>, which claims to be an independent union for professionals like engineers, scientists and managers, has warned that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> supported investigation into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<em>alleged margin squeeze in superfast broadband pricing<\/em>\u201d could damage investment in the UK telecoms network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Budget ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> adamantly believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> is <strong>behaving unfairly<\/strong> and in an ideal world it would like more control to differentiate its own superfast broadband (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>\/P) services and prices from the standard BTWholesale based mould. Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> claims that its fibre optic based internet access products are offered on a \u201c<em>level playing field<\/em>\u201d to all ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look at the wider price difference between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> services from BT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> for similar &#8220;<em>unlimited<\/em>&#8221; packages suggests a more mixed picture where BT&#8217;s rivals are sometimes cheaper, depending on how you balance the costs, special offers and value-added features. Never the less <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> has now agreed to <strong>investigate the concerns<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/05\/ofcom-to-probe-bt-after-talktalk-fttc-broadband-competition-complaint.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Dai Hudd, Prospect&#8217;s Deputy General Secretary, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobiletoday.co.uk\/News\/25164\/Union_slams_Ofcom_broadband_pricing_investigation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Mobile Today<\/a>): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s primary task should be to ensure that we get [investment in superfast broadband]. This investigation won&#8217;t move us any closer to achieving the superfast broadband infrastructure that we need, so there is no purpose in conducting it. Furthermore, there is no case to answer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We welcome investment in network supply. But instead of complaining about the perceived shortcomings of the only significant investor we have, perhaps TalkTalk should consider building its own network &#8211; and, of course, open it up to all retail service providers as BT is compelled to<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the comments above could just as easily have been written by BT itself but it&#8217;s ultimately for Ofcom to decide whether or not there&#8217;s really a case to answer and perhaps their investigation will finally bring some clarity, which is arguable purpose enough for conducting it.<\/p>\n<p>In any case if Ofcom does agree that there\u2019s enough evidence to pursue BT more vigorously, which is likely to be <strong>decided before the end of 2013<\/strong>, then there\u2019s every chance that a wider investigation could drag on for years. It\u2019s difficult to know whether this would have any tangible impact on BT\u2019s commercial plans or the government\u2019s related <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> (BDUK) ambitions (so far BT has won all of the BDUK contracts).<\/p>\n<p>The union itself claims to work with BT &#8220;<em>at every level, from local reps talking over issues in one building to negotiating teams working at the top level of the company<\/em>&#8220;. Most recently a Prospect rep helped BT to identify and resolve a mistake it made in calculating pension contributions for 1,500 female staff, which resulted in the operator &#8220;<em>underpaying the employer contribution to the women&#8217;s pension funds while they were on maternity leave<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org.uk\/news\/id\/2013\/00607\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospect, which claims to be an independent union for professionals like engineers, scientists and managers, has warned that Ofcom&#8217;s new TalkTalk supported investigation into BT\u2019s \u201calleged margin squeeze in superfast broadband pricing\u201d could damage investment in the UK telecoms network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[474,97,36,74],"class_list":["post-3197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-bt-wholesale","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-talktalk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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