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Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff
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BT holding back ADSL as long as they could in order to monetise on the significant investment they made into their failed ISDN product didn't help matters either.
LLU has been made as difficult as possible by BT in order to try and keep their grip on the infrastructure and the cost of BT Wholesale products to the ISPs is a farce (made worse again by OFCOM).
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Alexander Hanff
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Slightly off subject but..
Although I am not a BT lover, in a small defence, years ago BT (When they had a hat of respectability on) were for years prevented into going into the optical cable / TV business by Oftel to actively promote other competition (competition never really came).
During those years BT had wads of money to spend and had they been allowed to go into the cable business, we would all be on a full Optical cable connection now and we could have had a 1st world telecommunications / TV system now.
I blame Maggie T. for that one. We should have let them invest in the infrastructure and then perhaps unbundle, but that would have left less money for the investors. Oftel then was controlled then by the politicians of the day, just like their successor OFCOM, which I agree with you, makes a mess of everything.