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Originally Posted by smcicr
Not sure if it's been posted here or not and not sure of the veracity either but I'm in something of a rush so I'll just chuck it out there - there has been an update on the VM intranet today suggesting that BT's trial is expected to start today (July 3rd) - anyone got anything more? seen any invites etc? The rest of the update reiterated VM's previous position that they will not proceed with Phorm unless completely satisfied that it complies with relevant acts / laws etc etc....
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No sign of that here - BT are committed to giving 24 hours notice, although they may mean that in the sense of issuing a press release rather than informing customers - generally the BT way of doing things is to make a decision (a bad one) - then tell the press, then the customers find out from the press, then the customers ring the help desk who haven't been told, and then a few days later El Reg prints the full details. Then the CEO and the BT legal people and the technical people find out then they have lots of internal conference calls to sort out the mess. (but they fail)
The BT broadband status page and the internal support newsgroup have no information about this. I imagine it is yet another false start.
They would have to be really really stupid and suicidal to expose themselves to so much civil and criminal legal action while the ICO is still considering various complaints already in the pipeline, and just before the police file gets handed in on the 16th. Surely no one at BT is that stupid?
Expect the trials any time soon. I think they will definitely have happened by the end of March 2008.