BT has signalled that it will open up it cabling infrastructure to other communications companies.
Although anyone is able to lay fibre cables across the country, BT is at an advantage because of the poles, pipes and sewers it has had at its disposal since before privatisation.
The Conservative party recently indicated that, if elected into government, it would force BT to make this move.
However, Ian Livingston, the company's chief executive officer, says that it had been in talks with Ofcom on the issue, and sees it as a way of helping bring fast broadband to the majority of the country.
He told the Financial Times: "Although it's unlikely to be the silver bullet to get fibre to every home, open access to all ducts, not just ours, might help BT and others extend coverage and so we would like to see a future government support such a move."
Dame Wendy Hall, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton, recently said that it was essential that fibre optic cabling is rolled-out around the country to give people and organisations access to services such as cloud computing.
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