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Old 18-07-2003, 08:07   #57
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Originally posted by matty4donna
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WITH massive financial help from the UK goverment yet you won't allow ntl: just a year or two to upgrade your half of the network? Now who is exagerating, expecting ntl: to upgrade a network that covers half of the UK in just a year!

You wanna talk about old technology, BT were given the option 15 years ago to upgrade their network in preparartion for future high bandwidth services but they never!
BT gets no financial help from the government that NTL doesn't (ie investment reliefs etc). BT is not a government body and gets no subsidy from the government.

Its a good thing that BT didn't upgrade for high bandwidth 15 years ago. Think how poor that technology would be compared to today. 15 years ago BT did upgrade to digital exchanges and make massive infrastructure improvements over the exchange and trunk network. They have never changed the pair to home though. Think 15 years ago there was no call waiting, caller ID, call minder (voicemail), three way calling, call divert. All these things have come from upgrading to digital exchanges.

In fact I think 15 years ago we were still using pulse dialing over much of the network. Do you remember how long it took to dial numbers with lots of 0's?
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