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Originally Posted by ANTOINE
Not really, as has been discussed many times on this forum, BT's access Network (i.e. the last couple of km of copper) was paid for by the tax payer. This is the bit that other operators use.
They very rarely use the BT national fibre optic network that links all the exchanges for their backhaul. In fact many (carphone warehouse, orange,tiscali) use VMs Network. Sky have their own, others will use C&Ws or Thus's Networks.
There is no justification to force VM to open their network.
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... and usually why these Telco's charge more for 0845 and 0870 than BT and why they don't like 03 numbers, they have less break-in and break-out areas so can't as efficiently route route calls, for example someone could call an 0845 number and it might be on the same exchange as the person calling it, BT are able to keep it local, other telcos it might have to go to a central look-up and back out again.