BT ordered to split from Openreach

[Glenn]

Telecoms regulator Ofcom has ordered BT to legally separate from its Openreach division, which runs the UK's broadband infrastructure.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38141510

[Lance]

This can only be good news for the industry.

[zappaDPJ]

Virtually all the news outlets seem to be ignoring a major part of this story. According to Goldman Sachs the European Commission would have to approve Ofcom's plan, something it's thought they are very unlikely to do.

[Simon]

Why ruin a good news story with the full facts?   

[mervl]

Not sure it all makes much difference (unless we subscribe to the popular "suspicious of everyone" mentality).

[Glenn]

Both Ofcom and BT move slowly, give them 28 months then, the EC may not have a say.

[JohnH]

...According to Goldman Sachs the European Commission would have to approve Ofcom's plan, something it's thought they are very unlikely to do.

There may come a time soon when what the European Commission says or does, is of no consequence in the UK.   

[zappaDPJ]

There may come a time soon when what the European Commission says or does, is of no consequence in the UK.   

'May' being the operative word by more than one definition