Member

The purpose of these amendments, as I say, is not simply to sing the praises of open access—I think we did that in the debate on the previous amendment. It is to ask, very seriously, how this assessment will be made, and what warmth and encouragement will be extended to operators that wish to offer competing and supplementary services, or whether the offer of open access will in effect be made a nullity by an excessively tight application of the principles of abstraction.