Recommendation 22

We asked the Department how it intended to protect consumers in areas with a single dominant supplier from being charged a lot more without proper competition. The Department told us that its contracts had price control provisions to ensure that internet providers cannot charge beyond what is reasonably comparable in that areas.59 The Department did agree that local monopolies were not a good thing but did not explain how price controls will work and told us that it had not yet decided how to define an area.60 56 C&AG’s Report, paras 3.18–3.20 57 Qq 19, 50 58 Qq 50–51 59 Q46 60 Qq 47–49 Improving Broadband 15