Communications Bill - Clause 69 - Permitted subject-matter of access-related conditions
Communications Bill
5:15 pm
Mr Andrew Robathan (Blaby, Conservative)
I want to draw my hon. Friend's attention to the role of Ofcom and the issue of access. Surely, the role of Ofcom, the regulator, is to look after not only the industry, in its broadest sense, but consumers. Of course some commercial companies do not wish to enter agreements because they may do better by not entering agreements, but is not the whole point of having a regulator, which is especially relevant to the subject of conditions of access covered by clause 69, so that he can look after the interests of consumers and encourage, or perhaps cajole, companies to enter such agreements?