Draft Determination to resolve disputes between each of Cable & Wireless, THUS, Global Crossing, Verizon, Virgin Media and COLT and BT regarding BT’s charges for partial private circuits

In its Review of the retail leased lines, symmetric broadband origination and wholesale trunk segments markets (the 2004 LLMR Statement), Ofcom concluded that BT held significant market power (SMP) in the markets for wholesale low bandwidth traditional interface symmetric broadband origination (TISBO), for wholesale high bandwidth TISBO and for wholesale trunk segments at all bandwidths. As a result, Ofcom imposed a series of SMP conditions on BT under section 45 of the Act, including non-discrimination obligations and cost orientation obligations for all three markets and a charge control for the two TISBO markets.