competition in the uk telecommunications marketplace 2004 over last two decades has been one of leading proponents opening up its market to increased this resulted a move against dominance incumbent operator bt and meant entry hundreds new competitors provision services equipment 1998 european union directive on created framework for telecoms across europe encouraging ending telephone service monopolies other eu countries is therefore part an open competitive at end 2003 ofcom took from oftel further five regulators become overall regulator communications industry responsibilities include wireless tv radio there continued be steady growth first half primarily down use broadband continuing rise mobile telephony turnover grew by 6 50 8bn was estimated 13bn quarter
