the free access is to the ISP's not he consumer. Nothing to do with take up rates.
Facts Billy Facts. ________________
Great captain of industry you'd be, free wholesale is obviously to get the actual cost to the consumer as low as possible to get the uptake as high as possible.
They can't expect the private industry to make a loss but it's just fine for the taxpayers.
All this does is distort the business case because as soon as the subsidies are stopped and prices go to actual market rates, all these connections just get cancelled.
