BT Whinges @ Cable Operators
Posted: 18th Sep, 2003 By: MarkJ
Continuing their whinging act from earlier, BT has now attacked Oftel for not regulating its rivals (NTL, Telewest etc.) in the same way as it has had to "suffer":
John Moorwood, consumer PR manager at Telewest, hit back at BT, claiming that the telco's attitude was "ironic" because it had been so slow in rolling out broadband services. "We are regulated by Oftel, but not in the same way. BT has a monopoly and, in theory, access to 100 percent of the population through the phone system," he said.
Moorwood also said that because the cable company covered less than 25 percent of the country, it would be unfair to regulate it in the same way. However, he did reveal that this coverage will increase in the long term as it takes advantage of wireless networking technologies. "In terms of digging up streets and laying new cables, we are not going to expand. Over the next five to ten years, there will be economical and environmentally friendly ways of expanding our reach. We are looking into installing Wi-Fi points at the furthest ends of our cable infrastructure and spreading coverage that way," he said.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the above quote is the first sentence regarding how Telewest is "not going to expand" by laying new cables anymore.
Could this mean that the operators land-based cable-modem service has finally reached a peak and will go no further? More @ ZDNet.
John Moorwood, consumer PR manager at Telewest, hit back at BT, claiming that the telco's attitude was "ironic" because it had been so slow in rolling out broadband services. "We are regulated by Oftel, but not in the same way. BT has a monopoly and, in theory, access to 100 percent of the population through the phone system," he said.
Moorwood also said that because the cable company covered less than 25 percent of the country, it would be unfair to regulate it in the same way. However, he did reveal that this coverage will increase in the long term as it takes advantage of wireless networking technologies. "In terms of digging up streets and laying new cables, we are not going to expand. Over the next five to ten years, there will be economical and environmentally friendly ways of expanding our reach. We are looking into installing Wi-Fi points at the furthest ends of our cable infrastructure and spreading coverage that way," he said.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the above quote is the first sentence regarding how Telewest is "not going to expand" by laying new cables anymore.
Could this mean that the operators land-based cable-modem service has finally reached a peak and will go no further? More @ ZDNet.
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