Currently rival companies to BT can access the former monopoly's telegraph poles and underground ducts to lay their own fibre networks to reach residential and small-business customers.
Under the new plan, BT will have to extend this approach to rivals serving large businesses as well, improving the business case for other telecom<\/a> firms to focus on fibre.
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