"This isn't nearly as much as Openreach wanted, but is _less_ than competitors argued for"

The BT exchanges should be (forcibly) sold off and become entirely neutral and non or little-profit making.

Then any network operator wishing to buy a service will pay the same price, with discounts for bulk purchases. At the moment we are in the ridiculous position whereby BT says what it thinks is "fair" price, Ofcom does some complex sums and says yes or no.

Never forget that BT was a state monopoly and it is still a near monopoly. It got a very good deal for a very good price. The jiggery-pokery of Openreach being somehow independent is fallacious. I, a member of the public, cannot buy any Openreach shares.

BT is the reason why we have expensive and slow broadband in comparison to a lot of other countries. And Ofcom lets them do it.

Sorry mate but BT is still BT and will act as one company when all is said and done, Wholesale, Openreach, Retail are just different departments in BT set up as a PR exercise to avoid ofcom taking a chainsaw to the company.

Time for this dinosaur to become extinct

As stated above, Openreach are only responsible for the copper(or Ali) wires to the end users. This being a mash up of various standards/types of connection methods (TPON anyone ?).

Lets get a real level playing field and force Virgin (or whatever they are called this week) to open up their network in the the same way that Openreach has to. Oh and lets get the ASA to have a look at the 'fibre optic' claims they advertise with.

Meh, I would be cynical but I cant be arsed.