Reaction to BT Openreach separation – glee, scepticism and cynicism

In light of Ofcom’s attempts to prize Openreach from BT, the wider telecoms industry has reacted. Some with glee, some with scepticism, and some with cynicism.
First up, Vodafone must have been given a wee heads up that Ofcom was about to raise the stakes, because it chose this morning to release some research saying how much BT is coining from Openreach.
According to the research, conducted by Frontier Economics, BT raked in £1 billion of excess profit in its 2016’s full year