This week the European Commission has given its blessing to a slightly altered virtual unbundling agreement to go ahead in Germany to support the rollout of fiber and G.fast. For at least the past 2 decades, despite European Commission directives to the contrary, Deutsche Telekom has virtually ignored the rules for local loop unbundling and has worked a margin squeeze, between its own broadband price and its unbundled line rental, which has slowed up broadband in Germany. Eventually the European Commission fined Deutsche Telekom in 2003, but there has been continued dragging of heels and pricing adjustments which keep rivals either at bay or impoverished. The UK has been better, although not much better, and constant vigilance by regulator Ofcom…