Rivals Unimpressed - Datastream Cut
Posted: 08th May, 2003 By: MarkJ
Both THUS Telecom and ISP Tiscali have hit back at BTs DataStream ADSL price cut, claiming that Oftel hasn't done enough and has let the operator escape with a bare minimum of change:
"The price cuts announced by BT today appear to be the minimum required to prevent the immediate imposition of a provisional order by Oftel," said Ian Hood, director of communications and regulatory affairs at Thus.
"We do not the believe the price cuts go far enough, but we welcome Oftel's rapid intervention into what we see as yet another abuse by BT of their market dominance.
We look forward to further changes to the DataStream product, including additional price cuts, upon the completion of Oftel's investigation."
The comments made by THUS in the VNUNet item are echoed by Tiscali in The Register's piece below:
In a statement Sergio Cellini, the CEO of Tiscali UK, said: "This has been a clear manoeuvre by BT to offer the minimum possible price concession to prevent Oftel acting immediately on this matter.
We expect Oftel will continue to investigate the current pricing complaints, to prevent ongoing discrimination in favour of BT's offer and especially as nothing has changed in the business tariffs, where BT is obviously trying to reinstate itself as a monopoly."
No doubt a number of other rivals will soon respond to BTs almost laughable cut, if you can call it that.
"The price cuts announced by BT today appear to be the minimum required to prevent the immediate imposition of a provisional order by Oftel," said Ian Hood, director of communications and regulatory affairs at Thus.
"We do not the believe the price cuts go far enough, but we welcome Oftel's rapid intervention into what we see as yet another abuse by BT of their market dominance.
We look forward to further changes to the DataStream product, including additional price cuts, upon the completion of Oftel's investigation."
The comments made by THUS in the VNUNet item are echoed by Tiscali in The Register's piece below:
In a statement Sergio Cellini, the CEO of Tiscali UK, said: "This has been a clear manoeuvre by BT to offer the minimum possible price concession to prevent Oftel acting immediately on this matter.
We expect Oftel will continue to investigate the current pricing complaints, to prevent ongoing discrimination in favour of BT's offer and especially as nothing has changed in the business tariffs, where BT is obviously trying to reinstate itself as a monopoly."
No doubt a number of other rivals will soon respond to BTs almost laughable cut, if you can call it that.
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