The UK may have voted to leave the European Union, but its regulator is still pioneering new territory that may lead all of Europe to follow it. Its proposal issued this week, after numerous government comments complaining about BT Openreach, will make Openreach a very arms-length company from BT. It could be the first European Union regulator which breaks up its incumbent telco, in order to regulate its broadband market. But political solutions to technology problems rarely get it right and Ofcom seems to have completely missed the point on this one – instead of “booing” BT as the pantomime villain, and heralding the new and wonderful Openreach, what will happen is that the two companies will reverse their roles…