Community network specialist Fibrestream has asked UK comms regulator Ofcom to force BT to provide the postcodes that will receive its fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) connection.
In an article on the ISPreview web site, Fibrestream director Guy Jarvis said: "[Disclosing the locations] would minimise the scale and nature of any additional public sector intervention requirement."
Talking to Computing, Jarvis suggested that smaller ISPs and community groups would benefit from this information as it would indicate where there would be a potential need for their services.
A BT spokesman said the company could not reveal all the postcodes that would get FTTC because some had yet to be decided.
"This requires detailed planning and we'll be working closely with our UK communications provider customers to provide this," he said.
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