Oftel Boss - Scapegoat For Problems
Posted: 20th May, 2003 By: MarkJ
Oftel recently published a review of its work over the past 19 years, which contains an interesting 'reflection' piece by the current Director General. He claims to have been a scapegoat for all the market problems of the time:
David Edmonds - the current boss who took the job back in 1998. His reflection touches on the time when the world and his dog seemed to call on him to resign. He describes his battle with BT over local loop unbundling as "trench warfare"
Commenting on criticism that he had gone "soft" on BT he says: "I was the first European regulator to go down that route. At no time did we allow BT to thwart what we were doing. I was a convenient scapegoat in a period when some of BT's competitors were seeing their very, very thin business plans lapsing because of the environment."
He adds: "I would have been quicker, I would have cut corners, I would have been firmer with the industry. In retrospect, it took me too long to realise the need to drive swift decisions in compliance. But without the pressures of LLU, BT would not have rolled out broadband to the point at which the UK is now - one of the leading countries in Europe - with a range of service providers competing to offer broadband services."
Make up your own minds, although we note the 'self-importance' factor again where he neglects to use the word 'WE' in place of 'I'. More @ The Register.
David Edmonds - the current boss who took the job back in 1998. His reflection touches on the time when the world and his dog seemed to call on him to resign. He describes his battle with BT over local loop unbundling as "trench warfare"
Commenting on criticism that he had gone "soft" on BT he says: "I was the first European regulator to go down that route. At no time did we allow BT to thwart what we were doing. I was a convenient scapegoat in a period when some of BT's competitors were seeing their very, very thin business plans lapsing because of the environment."
He adds: "I would have been quicker, I would have cut corners, I would have been firmer with the industry. In retrospect, it took me too long to realise the need to drive swift decisions in compliance. But without the pressures of LLU, BT would not have rolled out broadband to the point at which the UK is now - one of the leading countries in Europe - with a range of service providers competing to offer broadband services."
Make up your own minds, although we note the 'self-importance' factor again where he neglects to use the word 'WE' in place of 'I'. More @ The Register.
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