A mandated price cut in so-called local loop unbundling in the UK, a requirement for UK providers to offer broadband service, and an allowed price increase for wholesale broadband products has two sides arguing the move will either boost broadband adoption and competition, or kill off all but the biggest service providers. Ofcom, the UK’s regulatory Office of Communications, published its wholesale price proposals for “a competitive broadband market,” but a group of more than 50 smaller British ISPs complain the new costs to them will put them out of business.
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UK Broadband Pricing Adjustment: Competition or Crisis?
Posted by: Jay Lyman August 27, 2004 10:13 AMA mandated price cut in so-called local loop unbundling in the UK, a requirement for UK providers to offer broadband service, and an allowed price increase for wholesale broadband products has two sides arguing the move will either boost broadband adoption and competition, or kill off all but the biggest service providers. Ofcom, the UK’s regulatory Office of Communications, published its wholesale price proposals for “a competitive broadband market,” but a group of more than 50 smaller British ISPs complain the new costs to them will put them out of business.