UK's Ofcom extends BT Openreach regulation by five years; widens price caps to 80 Mbps
→ISP pricing teams must apply regulator price limits on plans up to 80 Mbps
Change
UK's Ofcom has extended regulation of BT Openreach for five years and applied binding price caps to a wider set of retail and wholesale broadband speed tiers up to 80 Mbps, making charges for those tiers subject to regulator limits during the period.
Why it matters
Products above 80 Mbps are excluded from the widened price caps, placing higher-speed tiers outside Ofcom's price controls. Ofcom states that leaving higher-speed products unregulated preserves providers' incentive to invest in faster networks.
Implications
- — Retail ISP pricing teams in the UK must immediately set consumer tariffs for plans at or below 80 Mbps so they do not exceed Ofcom's capped levels — failure risks regulator enforcement and required tariff rollbacks.
- — Wholesale contract managers at ISPs and broadband resellers in the UK must apply capped charges for the affected speed tiers in new and existing wholesale agreements or face Ofcom-ordered price corrections during the five-year regulatory period.
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