In 2017 BT Group provided Ofcom and industry with a set of voluntary Commitments to address Ofcom’s competition concerns at the time, giving Openreach greater strategic and operational independence from BT Group. The Commitments made Openreach a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group operating within the BT Group Strategic Framework – with its own staff, management, purpose and strategy.
The Commitments increase opportunities for other Communication Providers to co-invest with Openreach and deliver better broadband services for the UK, and they contribute to strengthening the UK’s digital economy.
To support colleagues in BT Group and Openreach who are working across both organisations, BT Group has developed and published a number of governance and guidance documents. These also help Ofcom, Communication Providers and other stakeholders understand how we do business. The documents include Guidance Notes focused on processes involving both Openreach and BT Group work, and covering, for example, legal, policy and commercial processes.
