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UK Broadband Deals - Local Loop Unbundling Brings More Competition
but as of 13 January 2005, 31,000 local loop connections have
been unbundled. While this is short of the target of 50,000
Ofcom hopes that 1 million local loop connections will be
unbundled by June 2006.
LLU is generally opposed by the Incumbent Local Exchange
Carriers (ILECs) such as BT, which in most cases used to be
state monopoly enterprises before the telecommunications sector
was liberalised. They argue that LLU amounts to a regulatory
taking, that they are forced to provide competitors with
essential business inputs, that LLU stifles infrastructure-based
competition and technical innovation because new entrants prefer[ Read Article ]
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