Simon

Cumbria

IT

Karen is right - who in their right mind would put in that sort of investment with the prospect looming of a mass clamour for "we want it cheap" and a regulator who cannot see the long term issues ?

By not taking a long term view, our regulator killed of the market for unbundled services all those years ago. I estimate that the push for ever lower prices put this country back by something like 5 years or more in terms of having a viable LLU market - in fact I think it could be argued that we've never actually recovered.