BT's duct plans 'put spotlight on broadband rivals'Tuesday, February 9th 2010 Internet service providers could soon come under more pressure to launch fibre optic broadband networks, according to an expert. A technology expert has suggested that BT may have inadvertently put more pressure on other broadband providers to introduce super-fast networks.
Rory Cellan-Jones, the BBC's technology correspondent, has claimed that BT's plans to open up its underground network of ducts have shifted the focus away from the company.
He explained in a blog published by the news provider that people may start to look at what other providers are doing to take advantage of BT's proposals.
"Pressure from broadband campaigners may now switch from BT to the brash young upstart of the broadband world, Carphone Warehouse, whose TalkTalk is by some measures the UK's biggest single supplier," he outlined.
"Rural-fibre enthusiasts may soon be calling Carphone boss Charles Dunstone to ask him when TalkTalk's 100mbps service is coming up their lane."
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt recently backed BT's plans to open its underground ducts to other broadband providers.
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