{"id":9792,"date":"2015-07-29T10:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:30:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:30:46","slug":"bt-escape-latest-ofcom-uk-fttc-margin-squeeze-test-unscathed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/bt-escape-latest-ofcom-uk-fttc-margin-squeeze-test-unscathed.html","title":{"rendered":"BT Escape Latest Ofcom UK FTTC Margin Squeeze Test Unscathed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0telecoms regulator has re-run its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> \/ VULA &#8220;<em>margin squeeze<\/em>&#8221; test, which was\u00a0introduced earlier this year as a mechanism for keeping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s &#8220;fibre <em>broadband<\/em>&#8221; prices\u00a0fair by ensuring they &#8220;<em>maintain a sufficient margin between wholesale and retail &#8230; charges<\/em>&#8220;, and found that the operator is not in breach.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The test imposes a new <strong>Significant Market Power<\/strong> requirement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> to ensure they don\u2019t &#8220;<em>set the VULA margin such that it prevents an operator that has slightly higher costs than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> (or some other slight commercial drawback relative to BT) from being able to profitably match BT&#8217;s retail superfast broadband offers<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/01\/ofcom-propose-slightly-cut-bts-uk-fttc-superfast-broadband-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/ofcom-impose-rule-to-keep-bts-fttc-superfast-broadband-prices-fair.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s test weights a number of different factors, such as the price of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> service and the impact of bundling value added features like free BTSport. The regulator is currently reviewing their approach (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/ofcom-consult-on-btsport-tweaks-to-its-fttc-broadband-margin-squeeze-test.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), although in the meantime they&#8217;ve just completed another run using the latest data from BT and once again found that the operator is not in breach.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Ofcoms Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>On 31 May 2015 BT submitted the data necessary for us to monitor BT\u2019s compliance with SMP services condition 14 (Virtual Unbundled Local Access margin control) over the compliance period 1-30 April 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At paragraph 1.15 of our statement \u201cFixed Access Market Reviews: Approach to the VULA margin\u201d of 19 March 2015 we explained that following BT submitting its first compliance report, we would issue a statement that informs stakeholders whether or not we have reasonable grounds to suspect non-compliance over the first month assessment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having carried out a high level assessment, we have no reasonable grounds for believing that BT is contravening, or has contravened, SMP services condition 14 over the compliance period 1-30 April 2015<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BT will no doubt feel as if the latest result adds further fuel to their belief that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s test is &#8220;<em>flawed<\/em>&#8221; and merely provides &#8220;<em>unwarranted regulatory protection<\/em>&#8221; to their rivals (e.g. <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>). The operator has already tabled an appeal against the measure with the <strong>Competition Appeals Tribunal<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/05\/bt-take-ofcoms-fttc-margin-squeeze-test-to-competition-authority.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0telecoms regulator has re-run its\u00a0FTTC \/ VULA &#8220;margin squeeze&#8221; test, which was\u00a0introduced earlier this year as a mechanism for keeping BT&#8217;s &#8220;fibre broadband&#8221; prices\u00a0fair by ensuring they &#8220;maintain a sufficient margin between wholesale and retail &#8230; charges&#8220;, and found that the operator is not in breach.<\/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":[474,55,36,69],"class_list":["post-9792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bt","tag-fttc","tag-ofcom-regulation","tag-bt-openreach"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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