In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

If they are selling it at a loss they would be breaking competition law and could be heavilly fined for it

Which law?

I think you mean OfCom rules, and wrt FTTC (although I haven't checked the detail) those have been relaxed for BT. Whether just Openreach, or the whole group, is what I don't know.

"but it will use the BT Openreach FTTC product "

Yep, fitted one last week. Trialist, worked for TT.

GEA or VULA, or don't you get involved at that level?

In reply to a post by deeor:

If TalkTalk start to offer FTTC will they have to install their own fibre alongside that of BT or will there be some sort of sharing?

Sorry -just found the TalkTalk FTTC thread. All is now marginally clearer.

Nope, all TalkTalk data will be handed over from the BT Equipment onto TalkTalk's equipment via Ethernet at the exchange.
As a result, it will not be automatic - I believe TalkTalk will have to upgrade their equipment at each individual exchange to handle the new handover arrangements.

Despite all of this, the only sharing which will be occurring is on the fibres which connect the FTTC cabinets to the exchange, but this isn't much of a worry though as cabinets can have multiples of 1Gbps links

I hope this helps.

GEA, as far as I could tell.

Ta.