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To: Jan Garrity Allen who wrote (11840)	6/28/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Respond to of 29970

BT Threatens to Scrap Plan for Multimedia Service, Paper Says Bloomberg News June 27, 1999, 12:47 a.m. PT London, June 27 (Bloomberg) -- British Telecommunications Plc, the U.K.'s No. 1 phone company, has told the British government and the U.K. phone regulator it won't go ahead with plans to invest 3 billion pounds ($4.77 billion) to introduce an advanced phone service nationwide that can carry video and provide Internet access at 10 times the speed of regular phone lines unless U.K. officials reject calls to give rivals immediate and full access to the new system, the Sunday Times reported, citing no sources. BT has warned the regulator that giving immediate access to all phone service providers would hamper the development of the network and could cause chaos, the paper said. BT has proposed the U.K. follow the model used in Spain, which gave Telefonica SA, Spain's dominant carrier, three years to upgrade its network and benefit exclusively from its multimedia system before allowing rivals access, the paper said. BT has been testing the multimedia technology, called DSL for digital subscriber lines, since 1995, and expects to complete the tests at the end of the summer before announcing in the fall whether it will offer the service nationwide, BT spokesman Simon Gordon said Friday.