1 April 2005
Experts at the market research group Research Analysis and Knowledge Management have suggested that BT's dominance of the UK's home phone market will have disappeared by 2015 at the latest.
Currently, 93 per cent of households in Britain have a fixed line with eight in ten of those supplied by BT.
But the Register notes that Research Analysis expects BT's share of the market to fall from 82 per cent to 45 per cent during the next decade.
Increased competition is the obvious reason for BT's predicted downfall, in tandem with the repeated calls by rival telecoms firms to Ofcom to end the monopoly citing it as bad for the industry as a whole.
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