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BT's Strength Under Review At Ofcom
- The Telegraph, Friday, March 13, 2015 6:39 AM
BT could be stripped of control of the national telecoms network after regulators launched a review of the communications market and whether it is delivering the infrastructure and services the economy needs. Rivals including Sky and TalkTalk seized on the landmark Ofcom review to call for BT Openreach, the division that runs its physical infrastructure, to be spun off into a new, completely independent company. Such a split would be seen as the most radical regulatory response to BT's power and strongly resisted by the company.
