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Originally Posted by gooner4life
it was a safety reason, a vehicle catching on it etc.
also BT will compensate those customers greatly unlike ntl.
21CN will be to the home as well, they will be getting rid of system x switches, everything will be cabled up in the exchanges, frames engineers will be a thing of the past.
customers will dial a number or log onto a website to order a product and by the time they finish the call to an automated system or browse to a different page the product will be active on the customers account and delivered via 21CN.
i've worked for NTL, BT and Homechoice, i've never seen a network as impressive as 21CN albeit they were just the plans.
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They can do most of what you describe already. As for 21cn to the home? Somehow I doubt it. BT would have to replace probably tens of thousands of MILES of copper pair cable, and the customer equipment (sockets) in the house. Bear in mind that legally, BT have to provide a connection to every house, regardless of whether the occupants of that house are customers or not.
Edit: Just done some checking. Seems that BT are not replacing the "last mile" of cable. They are going to be relying on ADSL 2+ (or another DSL technology) for that. Looked at like that, some people are going to be in exactly the same boat as they are today.