British Telecom CEO Gavin Patterson is engaged in a critical campaign to land itself sole ownership of a Universal Service Obligation (USO) for all of UK broadband, which will ensure that it remains a national monopoly – with the net result that it will inherit wide ranging advantages in both wireless and wired broadband throughout the foreseeable future. Faultline has very specific recommendations for regulator Ofcom and feels this should not happen. The eyes of every telco on the planet is likely firmly focused on the outcome here – once one telco makes a killing out of accepting a broadband USO, then everyone will want to copy the formula. The idea behind a USO is that everyone in a national…