Broadband

(asked on 18th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if he will ask Ofcom to compare the predicted and actual proportion of BT's ducts that are able to have fibre blown through them without further civil works.


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Lord Vaizey of Didcot Portrait
Lord Vaizey of Didcot
This question was answered on 5th February 2016

All ducts and poles in BT’s network beyond the telephone exchange are open to other providers, under the Passive Infrastructure Access obligation imposed by Ofcom, to provide primarily residential broadband services. In its Digital Communications Review. Ofcom is looking at the future role of passive infrastructure access in facilitating competition and innovation.

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