Category: Regulation

ZDNet are reporting that ISPA is to meet Ofcom on Friday to discuss the recently announced price rises by BT Wholesale.

A week ago, BT Wholesale announced it will be increasing its IPStream Office and IPStream S-series prices in response to regulatory pressure. The 'margin squeeze' test has been blamed for the huge price increases that will cripple some smaller business-focussed providers who received only 28 days' notice of the increases as high as 32.6% taking place at the beginning of September. This will hit those ISPs who have one year or longer contracts with customers very hard, although even those with monthly contracts object to the notice period which causes many to run at a loss until they can pass on the costs to the end users.