ahh andy you are back now there is a PR battle to be won.

what makes you think this money will be spent on infrastructure? because BT have not made any public plans to bring fibre closer to the home, so I am curious what you have to back up what you saying.

Its hard to divert money from infrastructure when there is no such money, as things stand there is no budget in place for what you said.

so to clarify you think investment would be lower than the amount we have now?

1.4 billion capital expenditure out of 5.1 billion revenue.

Nope, just here to correct what you say.

You're saying their CF/CapEX ratio is low?

Interesting to see how you think they compare to their global peers....

Do we need fibre to the home?
Sure it would be nice, but never going to happen for a long time.

We can't fund healthcare, so getting faster speeds is not a priority.

How any money is spent is not down, to me or you. It's down to the bean counters. But face it, money not spent on the split, can be spent elsewhere.

If Ofcom really thought about what was best for the public. They should split Virgin as well as BT. Then merge the infrastructure of Virgin & Openreach together. Virgin have the makings of a fibre to home network (but only have to do it where they can make money) unlike Openreach/Bt who are expected to bring it to the masses regardless of the cost & return on this.

The best option all round is that the infrastructure is run by someone that has no dealing with the public in terms of product sales.
But to get to that ideal. Really needs the government to take the lead and go the way that has been announced today about the railways.
Not some un-elected Quango who think they know what is best, but have no real idea of what they really want.