Had British regulator Ofcom decided to separate BT’s wholesale infrastructure arm, Openreach, it would have been the first incident of its kind in Europe. Now as part of Ofcom’s demands, BT must instead allow its competitors access to its dark fiber network – something that other European operators would surely fight to the death to avoid. BT must now allow competing operators such as Vodafone, Sky, and TalkTalk access to its optical fiber network for enterprises, Ofcom says this is referred to as dark fiber because “the cables would not be ‘lit’ using BT’s electronic equipment. Instead, they would be ‘lit’ by the competitor installing its own equipment at either end of the optical fiber” – essentially optical fiber assets…