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The complainants - Fujitsu, Virgin Media, TalkTalk, Geo and Vtesse - asserted that some of BT's prices for access and rental of physical infrastructure were four to five times more than an "efficient market" would charge.

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Aidan Paul, chief executive of Vtesse, said the rateable value of each of BT's 28m local lines was about £9 - compared with about £100 for any lines "unbundled" and taken over by its competitors.

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But in their letter Fujitsu, TalkTalk, Virgin Media, Geo and Vtesse Networks claimed the figures BT published in its draft pricing offer in January are four to five times its costs, and that it would be cheaper to build their own ducts and poles.

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As I mentioned in my comments, we had won -- we announced a couple of customers, CELESTE in France and Vtesse in the U.K., but we also won 6 new customers and recognized revenue from 6 new -- excuse me, when I say we won 6 new customers, I mean that we recognized revenue from 6 new customers on the 7100 product.

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We also announced the Tellabs 7100 win at CELESTE in France and the Tellabs 7100 win at Vtesse in the United Kingdom.

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Aidan Paul, CEO of Vtesse Networks, rejected the call for further discussions.

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Paul said that in Hatt, Devon BT had charged Vtesse £12,000 a year to connect the Vtesse cabinet to the BT exchange in Plymouth.

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Vtesse CEO Alan Paul told Vaizey that he could halve the cost of the £20,000 street cabinet that connects the Vtesse fibre network to the BT cabinet which serves the homes with copper, if he paid what BT Openreach charged other BT companies for the same service, and it dispensed with unnecessary technical requirements.

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Paul said a similar situation existed in two other Vtesse fibre projects, where the company was experimenting with fibre to the home on poles and through BT ducts.

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Vaizey asked Paul to provide details of the charges Vtesse was paying BT and said, "We will set up a meeting with BT."

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