AT&T Co’s complaint that the regulatory environment in the UK makes the national public telecommunications market difficult to enter sounds a bit thin as soon as one realises that it doesn’t have to wait to get a licence or build its own network – all it need do is buy into one of the would-be carriers that already have one. And according to the Independent on Sunday, that is just what it is considering doing: the paper reckons that both it and Sprint Corp are in talks with the National Grid Co’s Energis Ltd telecommunications company, which has nearly finished building its super-low-cost network by stringing optical cable between its pylons. No-one would comment on the prospect of AT&T buying into Energis.
