UK communications regulator, Ofcom has revealed new proposals, alongside a consultation on its Business Connectivity Market Review (BCMR), to revisit allowing companies laying high-speed fiber cables - used by large businesses, mobile operators and broadband providers - unrestricted access to Openreach's ducts and poles. The telecommunications watchdog announced its intention to consult on unrestricted access to Openreach's underground ducts and telegraph poles in July. The incumbent, which maintains the UK's main broadband network, is already required to let competing providers use its telegraph poles and underground ducts to lay their own fiber cables, although it is currently restricted to companies offering primarily residential broadband services.
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