I happen to agree, it is not NIMBYISM to call out the repeated inconvenience caused by multiple organisations digging up the same places to to install separate infrastructure.

These things do have a material impact on peoples lives and often for prolonged periods.

It is not beyond the wit of man to enforce sharing of ducting in cases like this and that is what a regulator should be doing.

But the regulator is Ofcom and like all regulators, in my view, too close to the industry they regulate with the revolving door and a hive mindset, showing too little regard for the consumer - or in this case, the general public.

This isn't a particularly popular view with some of the regulars but having been around here longer than most, and having worked in telecoms in various guises, i've not seen or heard anything to convince me otherwise.

The same was true of Oftel in the past and the various other regulators across the economy.

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multiple organisations digging up the same places to to install separate infrastructure.

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It is not beyond the wit of man to enforce sharing of ducting in cases like this and that is what a regulator should be doing.

But the regulator is Ofcom and like all regulators, in my view, too close to the industry they regulate with the revolving door and a hive mindset, showing too little regard for the consumer - or in this case, the general public.

This would nail on yet another 100 years of a monopoly.

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having been around here longer than most, and having worked in telecoms in various guises

Good for you, but is that really a de facto measure of anything?

This would nail on yet another 100 years of a monopoly.

See absolutely no reason why it should.

Good for you, but is that really a de facto measure of anything?

It's a measure of this has all been said before, many times and in the same ways by usually the same people with the same mindset.

I still remember the sheer grief i got making the point that people shouldn't be forced to pay for a voice component of a landline when only wanting DSL.

It was mind-numbing.

Edited by 2E0VEB (Mon 24-Mar-25 23:07:59)