Vodafone UK’s initial media response to the publication today of Ofcom’s Digital Communications Review.
“We welcome Ofcom’s move to tighten its regulation and governance of BT Openreach and leave structural separation on the table. We also welcome the move to open up BT’s ducts and poles, which we have successfully used in other countries such as Portugal to provide customers with fibre to premises.
However, BT still remains a monopoly provider with a regulated business running at a 28% profit margin. Therefore, we urge Ofcom to ensure BT reinvests the £4 billion in excess profits Openreach has generated over the last decade in bringing fibre to millions of premises across the country, and not just make half-promises to spend an unsubstantiated amount on more old copper cable: we agree with Ofcom that fibre is the future.
We look forward to engaging with Ofcom as they implement these important regulatory changes”
