An interesting question for BT posed recently by a member of the Final Third First Campaign:
“I would like to know what they think about the possibility of ceding the infrastructure relating to final third provision to a national/multiple local CICs to allow for local enterprise and development.
In other words would BT be open to the suggestion that they allow others to utilise those parts of their network that they find too costly to upgrade
thereby allowing the Govt to to fulfil its obligations with very little cost to BT and a massive increase in the number of people receiving NGA or
improved broadband?”
The above question fits in well with the broader subject of infrastructure sharing and takes the point further.
If BT is not willing to invest into certain areas on economic grounds then those assets should be made available for others, with more cost efficient methodologies and social objectives, to use to deliver service instead.
The Use it or Lose it principle
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great idea. compulsory purchase and government could make those assets available to those who wish to travel the last mile. (or the first mile as we call it).
Posted 22 Jul 2010 at 8:45 am ¶chris
What assets do you mean? So the government would set up a department to own them. How would the existing network elements fit in with this? Such as existing copper and fibre cable serving exisitng users.
Posted 27 Jul 2010 at 8:25 am ¶Ownership is best accomplished by the vehicle that best serves those who pay the bill.
Community Interest Company model is a flexible and transparent approach to managing the monopoly middle mile in the interest of customers first
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