Incumbent Wholesale DSL is a Crap Idea

spongebob

........and so say Freeserve, the number 2 in the UK about the product supplied by BT that they are 'forced' to provide in the absence of an alternative.

That alternative is LLU of course.

"In Europe, the average set-up fee for a fully unbundled line is €60 while monthly fees are just €11. In the UK, though, the set-up fee is more than double at €126, while monthly fees are €15. "

In Ireland the incumbent went ape**** when it was proposed to allow unbundling at €15 a month or so......I forget the setup cost . One expects that the MD of BT Regions could make a good case for LLU in Ireland by reading up on Freeserves case in the UK. One also expects the same person, Bill Murphy himself, not to be a notable success in driving the Tier 2 ISP offering towards LLU.....which leaves us in a bit of a bind really. Step up another challenger for top of Tier 2 ..... will it be Smart one wonders.

The UK, where the number of NEW connections to DSL alone is running at 45,000 a week at the moment (thats more every week than Eircom have connected since the ****ing Ark touched down )has been desribed thus by a parliamentary committee

"Key to yesterday's UK Broadband Market report is the committee's view that rival telcos are unable to provide wholesale broadband products that can compete effectively with BT. It seems that the committee has sided with those in the industry who said there wasn't enough margin between DataStream (a wholesale broadband product that allows telcos to use their own networks to deliver DSL) and IPStream (BT's end-to-end wholesale product)."

Freeserve Article Here
Parliamentary Report Here

By choking ESATs margin for their 'own' DSL this week, Eircom are repeating the success of BT in maintaining their monopoly in the UK by offering 'just enough' but never enough and LLU over their dead bodies

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