Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:34:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Phone rates Message-ID: <367FF436.96D9CBC6@uk.radan.com> References: <XFMail.981222080256.dmlb@computer.my.domain>
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Duncan Barclay wrote: > > 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. > I stand corrected. So why then does BT still seem to have a stranglehold over telecomms? > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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