Oftel

Oftel (approximately 'office of the telecommunications regulator') is the United Kingdom telecommunications regulator[?]. Its function is to regulate the entire British telecommunications market, but particularly the dominant operator BT

Oftel is accused by its critics of having been 'captured' by British Telecom, and of giving the dominant operator too much freedom to leverage its monopoly status in fixed line telephony into other markets such as ADSL.

External links:

• http://www.oftel.gov.uk/
• http://theregister.co.uk/content/22/25358