Competition?
"it's more important to have ten companies competing to not actually deliver anything but without any subsidy rather than one actually getting on and providing a service with a subsidy."
How's your memory?
If you have a long enough memory, you may remember the UK competitive auctions in 2004 for fixed wireless-access broadband. A dozen or so regional contracts were won by a variety of different companies. Post-auction, one company went around and did backroom deals to get themselves all but a couple of the licences.
That company was called PCCW at the time but it may have changed its name since.
Their "service" has been invisible ever since too, although when it did attempt to promote a service, it too never kept the same name for more than a few months (Netvigator, NOW, maybe others).
They've been in the news again in the last few months, attempting to get their spectrum allocation "re purposed". Can't remember what name they're using at the moment, don't care, don't want them anywhere near my money or near Ofcon (who if there was any justice should have withdrawn the licences years ago on grounds of failure to deliver a corresponding service).
It would be a joke, except its not.
Meanwhile, we're expected to believe that Fujitsu, a major supplier to BT of both equipment and services, was seriously competing with BT for BDUK projects? Yeah, right, I believe you. I believe you've got a bridge for sale as well...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
