BT formally capitulates to Ofcom Openreach fudge

The protracted saga concerning the future of BT Openreach seems to have come to an anti-climax with BT agreeing Ofcom’s ambiguous ‘legal separation’ solution.
The paradoxical situation of broadband suppliers such as Sky and TalkTalk relying on their main competitor to maintain their network has always been problematic. As the former state monopoly BT owns most of the fixed-line infrastructure in the UK, with Virgin Media its only national competitor, and it leases that capacity