BT fined £42 million over late installations to telecom providers
BT fined £42 million over late installations to telecom providers
Published: 27th March 2017 | Source: BBC News |
BT fined £42 million over late installations to telecom providers
Below is a statement from Gaucho Rasmussen, investigations director at Ofcom, highlighting the importance of these rules and how BT's delays and lack of compensation can hurt consumers.
These high-speed lines are a vital part of this country's digital backbone.
We found BT broke our rules by failing to pay other telecoms companies proper compensation when these services were not provided on time.
The size of our fine reflects how important these rules are to protect competition and, ultimately, consumers and businesses.
Recently Ofcom convinced BT to separate their Openreach division into its own separate legal entity, allowing Openreach to serve all UK customers equally and not be used to give BT an unfair advantage in the telecommunications market.
These changed will ensure that Openreach will be able to act without the influence of BT, allowing them to treat all of their customers in the same way and act outside of BT's own corporate strategy. Hopefully, this will allow the company to accelerate their plans to upgrade and further invest in their infrastructure in ways that will benefit all of their customers.
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Originally Posted by Kaapstad
How about compensating users for poor internet speeds?
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Originally Posted by NeverBackDown
This is technically what they are doing. Fining them for not delaying faster internet infrastructure.
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What about interruptions to their service?Quote
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Originally Posted by Kaapstad
Don't think so
What about interruptions to their service? |
Poor internet speeds is not the same as interruptions... my point stands.
Either way they are still technically fined for missing appointments on fixing these issues. Should read the last article about this. It says everything about what they are trying to doQuote
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