High-speed net could disappoint
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Good grief. I remember 5/6 years ago installing ADSL 1Mb (the fastest available at the time in the UK) for clients. Then it was expensive, took BT ages to enable (if indeed they decreed your line would support it), available initially only to businesses, and BT would regularly pull the plug on it without warning (citing line 'noise'). BT were clearly involved in protectionism for their ISDN and leased-line businesses. OfTel (as it was then) appeared unable or unwilling to do anything about it. All this while Blair was extoling 'online Britain'.
Meanwhile you could get a domestic 8Mb DSL in Germany for the same price as a residential analogue phone line here in the UK. Analogue phone lines which BT insisted would not handle 8Mb.
Why are we always playing catch-up?
Good grief. I remember 5/6 years ago installing ADSL 1Mb (the fastest available at the time in the UK) for clients. Then it was expensive, took BT ages to enable (if indeed they decreed your line would support it), available initially only to businesses, and BT would regularly pull the plug on it without warning (citing line 'noise'). BT were clearly involved in protectionism for their ISDN and leased-line businesses. OfTel (as it was then) appeared unable or unwilling to do anything about it. All this while Blair was extoling 'online Britain'.
Meanwhile you could get a domestic 8Mb DSL in Germany for the same price as a residential analogue phone line here in the UK. Analogue phone lines which BT insisted would not handle 8Mb.
Why are we always playing catch-up?
posted by Euripides Trousers at 18:36
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