Virtual Unbundled Access to Fibre-to-the Home: Enhancing the Non-discrimination Obligation Decision

In February 2016, the MCA published a Decision entitled ‘Virtual Unbundled Access to Fibre-to-the-Home'. In that Decision, the MCA stated that it intended to issue a further decision aimed at enhancing the VULA remedy through the development of a series of metrics aimed at safeguarding an Other Alternative Operator against any potentially discriminatory behaviour. These metrics aim to capture and measure GO plc’s performance in relation to its VULA access obligation on the VULA FTTP processes as contemplated under Annex E2 of GO’s Reference Unbundling Offer.