On 6 January 2014 15:00, Charlie Boisseau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aled, > > You’re right - this is the same with all *BT Openreach* services - they > provide a shelf, an NTE, dedicated monitoring etc. etc. However *BT > Wholesale* have the flexibility to do things in a more sensible way and > are competing with the likes of SSE, Level3, Virgin etc. who all offer > wavelength services on a per-port basis rather than a per-platform basis. > Like I said, you can't really challenge BT's approach since commercially they are doing fine - plenty of customers queuing to buy their products and a 82% market share of wholesale circuits. They are also pursuing a strategy of reducing the number of points of entry into their portfolio i.e. reducing the number of products you can buy so they are unlikely to want to introduce variants of WDM for different markets and introduce more complexity into their catalog. Again I'd say, commercially, it's an effective strategy - moving customers to higher value, high-touch services rather than low-value bare bits (or bare wires.) Whether you think this is an abuse of their significant market power or not is up to you to discuss with Ofcom. Aled
