BT might only have about 30 percent market share of the UK fixed network internet access market, but it has about 80 percent share of that market when considering both retail and wholesale market share. In other words, 80 percent of all fixed network internet access connections rely on BT’s network.
And though the whole point of the wholesale regime is to promote competition through use of a single access network, Morningstar analysts say that in the fixed networks segment of the communications business, “competition is increasingly between telecom companies and cable-TV operators.”
In principle, once Virgin Media completes its Project Lightning network upgrade, Virgin Media will be able to sell services to about 70 percent of UK homes. As has been the case, that likely will mean that Virgin Media begins to grab more of the share of demand by consumers for the fastest access speeds.
In the U.S. market, cable operators have had the fastest speeds in the fixed network market since at least 2004.
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