BT accounts reveal fear of retrospective price adjustments
BT announced its annual results today. Press comment focused on BT’s profit growth and the reduction in their pension deficit. However, both of those stories …
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Ofcom has wide jurisdiction and discretion to accept and resolve disputes
The CAT today rejected BT’s arguments that Ofcom has a narrow jurisdiction to accept and resolve disputes referred to it by Communications Providers pursuant to …
Ofcom consults on reductions in LLU and WLR prices
Ofcom today started a consultation on price controls for local loop unbundling and wholesale line rental products provided by Openreach, the functionally separate local access division …
Ofcom proposes prohibition of evergreen customer contracts
Earlier this week I discussed the changes Ofcom are proposing to the General Conditions of Entitlement to implement the revised European Regulatory Framework. It now seems that …
DSAC an appropriate test for assessing LRIC cost-orientation
Today’s CAT judgment confirmed that Ofcom’s use of distributed stand-alone cost (“DSAC“) was an appropriate method to assess whether a regulated Communications Provider who had been found to possess …
‘Illegal state aid’ challenge to tax levied on BT’s UK fibre network fails in European Court
In a decision dated 21 January, but only released this week, the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg has dismissed Vtesse’s appeal against a decision of …
UK wholesale broadband access proposed charge control: Ofcom estimates BT’s weighted average cost of capital downwards to between 8.5% and 10%
Ten days ago Ofcom published a lengthy consultation on charge control for Wholesale Broadband Access, accompanied by a report from the Brattle Group on BT’s …
BT sets prices for passive access to ducts and poles
Before Christmas, this blog flagged that last-mile fibre access (also know as next generation access, or NGA) was a commercial and regulatory issue that would be high …
Is BT’s wholesale content connect the end of the world?
There has been a lot of discussion this week of BT’s wholesale content connect product, so I thought it would be helpful to unpack the …