"Ofcom has challenged BT to come up with proposals for opening up its networks to competitors to help speed the growth of telecoms services including broadband - or face a possible Competition Commission investigation," reports MediaGuardian.
"The communications regulator has backed off from calling for an immediate break-up of BT, noting that most of the company's competitors in the telecoms industry felt that this approach would be "too disruptive and expensive"."
"Ofcom said it instead favoured working with BT to deliver "real equality of access" to its networks and called on the company to come up with "prompt and clear proposals" about how this could be achieved."
