For Vendor Strategy Professionals

Access Structural Separation And Regulation Gain Traction

How The UK Experience Can Help Your Strategy

by Mike Cansfield, May 22, 2008

Despite the success of the liberalization of communications markets that began in the early 1980s, near-monopolies still exist in many countries at the access layer (from the street cabinet to the customer's premises). In 2005 in the UK, the regulator . . .

For Vendor Strategy Professionals

BT's Access Restructuring: Bad Deal; Bad Model

by Lars Godell, September 23, 2005

BT has agreed with the UK telecom regulator Ofcom to set up a new access division, operationally separate from the rest of BT. Forrester doesn't see the need for the deal: The big benefits will appear very late, and it will cost the UK telecom market . . .