The Telecommunications industry has only itself to blame for the appallingly slow roll-out of fast broadband to the nation. The 'market' has failed to deliver. That isn't merely the verdict of politicians or the Labour Party. That is the verdict of the telecommunications sector. So what is the problem? One of the problems was highlighted just three years ago in an Ofcom report, but it failed to take the bull by the horns and propose radical solutions. Openreach is the division of BT that owns the fibre and copper wires that run from the local telephone exchange to homes and businesses. The 76 million miles of cables underpins all our telecom and broadband services. Whether or not you change your service provider, it is the same cabling. One option is to split Openreach off from BT, and it has been an option called for by other providers such as Sky. They say that BT has failed to invest significantly in the network...
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