The UK Office of Telecommunications has now issued its discussion document on the future of leased line networks, saying that it wants network builders to be free to bring third parties onto their networks, for speech traffic as well as data, and to be free to sell on surplus capacity: British Telecommunications Plc has been raising the charges for leased lines to levels where it will not be possible to derive more than a modest profit on reselling spare capacity on them.
THE FUTURE OF LEASED LINE NETWORKS IN THE UK
