No surprise then that with high costs, unresolved issues, exchanges spread out around the country that the operators who originally signed up for unbundling have begun to leave the process in droves. The saga of unbundling is coming dangerously close to resembling that of the unmetered fiasco.
That too promised a universal panacea for Internet access and that too saw a glut of interest, followed by collapse. ISPs which pledged unmetered services began increasingly to look like the lemmings at their annual picnic off Beachy Head. And in order not to commit mass suicide the telcos have decided not to get involved with the potential crippling costs and uncertain future offered by unbundling. Of course we cannot underestimate the current state of the market and its role in putting telcos off.
Companies are now running scared of investing millions of pounds in a system that is untried, untested and still has many unresolved issues. Telcos now have to do their sums to the fourth decimal point before handing them in to whoever it is that reads business plans. And those people are going to be going through those plans with a finer than usual toothcomb to make sure it is an Internet venture that guarantees profit.
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