Fresh from the acquisition of leading UK mobile operator EE, BT says it will be in the forefront of 5G deployment in the country, probably around 2020. More immediately, the telco avoided the threatened compulsory break-up which might have emerged from a recently completed review of the communications market by regulator Ofcom. One of the options under consideration was the separation of its wholesale infrastructure arm, Openreach, to boost broadband competition and to ensure that EE did not get favourable access to mobile backhaul lines. But despite demands for that from BT quad play rivals such as Sky and TalkTalk, as well as Vodafone, Ofcom has held back from structural separation, for now at least. However, the regulator ordered changes…