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Written by david brunnen
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 01:00 |
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The CMA has strengthened its call for a change in Ofcom's regulatory focus away from the old Universal Service Obligation to a new Universal Access Right - replacing the constraints placed on the UK's former monopoly Telco with a broader broadband policy objective for all service providers. Speaking at the CMA's Fibre Futures conference, David Harrington highlighted the nonsense of the current out-dated USO that obliges BT to provide effective Internet access at the old dial-up data rate of 28Kb/s.
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