Use It or Lose It

An interesting question for BT posed recently by a member of the Final Third First Campaign:

“I would like to know what they think about the possibility of ceding the infrastructure relating to final third provision to a national/multiple local CICs to allow for local enterprise and development.

In other words would BT be open to the suggestion that they allow others to utilise those parts of their network that they find too costly to upgrade thereby allowing the Govt to to fulfil its obligations with very little cost to BT and a massive increase in the number of people receiving NGA or improved broadband?”

The above question fits in well with the broader subject of infrastructure sharing and takes the point further.

If BT is not willing to invest into certain areas on economic grounds then those assets should be made available for others, with more cost efficient methodologies and social objectives, to use to deliver service instead.

The Use it or Lose it principle

Also posted on www.fibrestream.co.uk