TalkTalk Worried About BT’s “Fibre Monopoly”

It’s not unusual to see TalkTalk come out with something, hell I work in an industry where I hear the company’s name almost on a regular basis and it usually ends up in a negative offspring…Maybe that’s because I work for Plusnet and we are their main competitor, who knows!.

According to David Goldie, Commercial Director for TalkTalk, he stated in an exclusive statement to The Guardian that BT are in essence are leaving the country with a second rate infrastructure and BT are gaining back the lost monopoly. Instances such as BT bidding against Fujitsu to deliver another super fast fibre network is an example to such an extent, but durely its still goes to who can deliver the best bang for buck. Goldie also went onto say that TalkTalk do not know the price of the Fibre whereas BT do. Now does this mean to connect up, because Plusnet, who I work for and a couple of other companies do or is it the price of to connect up a customer. Once again, other companies such as South Yorkshire’s Digital Region knew as well with access duct fights although Digital Region themselves have been disputing some costs.

What is interesting to hear is that Goldie feels that BT are not building the right infrastructure for the country. I’m not pro BT and i’m not anti BT either, but if Goldie has a better plan, I’d like to hear it. Considering that Fibre to the premises to every home is out of the question financially, the copper has to still be there in some form. You can only upgrade so much, best example is the London Underground. No matter how hard we try, It’s not going to be like Hong Kong’s MTR system where is flawless!.

Other countries such as Scandinavia may have a quicker network, but it’s also smaller and pretty much has no copper cabling. A more realistic comparison in fairness would be to the USA.

Whilst I can understand companies can be worried, its up to them to innovate and entice customers to use them as a provider, its what separates them from each other.The product is out there, they just have to figure out how they can use it to their advantage.

If you are interested in reading the full article, you can see it here at The Guardian