“ We see a lot of government support for rolling out FTTx, but they get carried away with the idea of trying to connect all homes. Th ey forget that in the near future, 80% of broadband connections will be mobile… Fibre and mobile broadband are two parts of the same solution. ” Michael Bjarhov, Asia-Pacifi c Director of Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson, speaking at the Next-Generation Broadband Forum Summit at CommunicAsia’09 - http://www.communicasia.com/show_daily/SHOW%20DAILY%20Day4.pdf. sche Telekom and Norway’s Telenor are all pursuing a range of technologies in their upgrade plans in Table 3, for example. British Telecom was recently criticized for a possible lack of coherence between BT Wholesale’s IP-based 21st Century Network plan and BT Openreach’s work to develop fi bre technol-ogy. Even if governments do not ‘pick technologies’, there are concerns that state-funded stimulus plans im-plicitly end up picking winners. Large-scale subsi-dies, funding and credit lines for backbone network construction could implicitly favour the established incumbent operators, at the expense of competitors and the rest of the industry. The consequences for competition and tilting the competitive playing fi eld are far from clear, in the United States and other countries. However, in response, BT has affi rmed that “no single NGN provides the perfect solution for every channel partner or every customer”42 and has under-lined its commitment to both projects. 44