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Europe to copy UK's broadband system
Friday 16th November 2007, by Daniel King
The telecoms system across Europe is likely to see a massive shake-up over the coming years as a result of proposals drawn up by the European Commission (EC).
Due to the success of the deregulation of the broadband market in the UK, the EC has recommended that countries throughout the continent copy the British formula.
In the UK, BT was the dominant telecoms player before regulator Ofcom allowed the technologies to be made available to other companies, known as functional separation. Broadband take-up has grown through the UK as a result.
The EC suggests that most, but not all, of the continent's nations should follow the UK example, ZDnet.co.uk reports.
A statement by the EC said: "In the UK, functional separation has spurred a new wave of investment and infrastructure-based market entry as evidenced by the explosion of local loop unbundled lines in UK, which has jumped from less than 100,000 in June 2005 to 3.3 million by the end of October 2007."
Figures from Ofcom published in August showed that 53 per cent of UK households had a broadband connection.
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