From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 22 11:38:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15225 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15013 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 11:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #2) id 0zsXdI-0002eC-00; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:38:17 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from beavis.uk.radan.com (beavis [193.114.228.122]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with SMTP id TAA02891; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:37:43 GMT Received: from uk.radan.com (rasnt-1) by beavis.uk.radan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17266; Tue, 22 Dec 98 19:37:41 GMT Message-Id: <367FF436.96D9CBC6@uk.radan.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:34:14 +0000 From: Mark Ovens X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en-GB Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Duncan Barclay Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, Brett Glass Subject: Re: Phone rates References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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