[UK] BT Group to cut wholesale prices

dahamsta

Two cuts in just over six months. Eh Comreg? Bloody useless.

NATIONAL NEWS: BT Group to cut wholesale prices
By Robert Budden, Telecoms Correspondent
Financial Times; Sep 05, 2003

BT Group is to cut the cost of the wholesale prices it charges rival carriers for access to its broadband high speed internet network following intervention from Oftel, the telecoms regulator.

The cuts are likely to make it easier for alternative operators to compete in the market for wholesale broadband services.

In the second cut from the telecoms operator this year, BT said it would cut by 50p to £8.05 the price of a connection for its Datastream product, which it sells to alternative telecoms operators. This followed complaints from Energis and Your Communications, which said they were being priced out of offering broadband to internet service providers because of the high costs of Datastream.

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BT forced to cut wholesale broadband prices
By Robert Budden, Telecoms Correspondent
FT.com site; Sep 04, 2003

BT Group has been forced to cut the cost of the wholesale prices it charges rival carriers for access to its broadband high speed internet network following intervention from Oftel, the telecoms regulator.

The cuts are likely to make it easier for alternative telecoms operators to compete in the market for wholesale broadband services eroding BT's dominance in this area.

In the second cut from the telecoms operator this year, BT said it would cut by 50p to £8.05 the price of a connection for its "Datastream" product which it sells to alternative telecoms operators. This latest cut followed complaints from Energis and Your Communications which argued that they were being priced out of offering broadband to internet service providers because of the high costs of Datastream.

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Urban Weigl

I ran this through the xe.com currency converter, and this is EUR 11.64.

Eircom's wholesale charge is EUR 27.00 (they wanted to charge 28 originally, but ComReg got them down to 27). Great job ComReg, you guys are really showing Eircom how to do it!

To wrap it up:
BT: EUR 11.64
Eircom: EUR 27.00


Edit: BT's ADSL service has 256kbps upload, twice the speed Eircom offers. Taking this into consideration, ComReg should set Eircom's wolesale price below what BT charge.

spongebob

Comreg are useless. They will be in the High Court until this time nextyear with the LLU issue, perhaps they will be able to ask Eircom to drop the wholesale price to €26 around christmas. I would hope that Comreg will ask them nicely and quietly .....

M

query

Eh... eircom have an injunction on the price...