Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 08:02:56 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Phone rates Message-ID: <XFMail.981222080256.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <367ED766.C2941435@uk.radan.com>
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On 21-Dec-98 Mark Ovens wrote: > > > Brett Glass wrote: >> >> At 11:15 AM 12/21/98 +0000, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk wrote: >> >> >Capitalism may reign supreme over on your side of the water, but >> >British Telecom is unfortunately rather too good at sucking in the >> >profits over here... >> >> I understand that there are two others: Mercury and another. Are >> they undercutting BT or just going along for the ride? >> > > Part of the problem is that BT still own all the major inter-city > trunks, so even if you use Mercury making a call from, say, London to > Manchester still has to use BT lines, which Mercury has to pay for. So > BT still holds the upper hand. > Actually, this isn't right. There are still a lot of BT only trunks but Mercury have their own or use trunks laid down next to railway lines by British R ail (second largest trunk network in the UK). Energis and Scottish Telecom have thier own lines, Energis wraps fibre optic cable around its parents power transmission lines and have UK wide coverage. Not sure how Scottish power does it, it may be the same as Energis. Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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