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thelem · 10-03-2006, 01:51

You can't really count wholesale ADSL lines as equal to BT Openworld/BT Yahoo!/BT whatever customers. On a wholesale line BT provide the connection from the customer's house to the ISP's network. They do not provide access to the internet itself, they do not provide email/newsgroup/content etc, they do not provide technical support, they do not advertise.

Basically what they do provide is pretty similar to what they provided for dialup - and you wouldn't say everyone who dials up over a bt line gets their internet from BT.

10-03-2006, 01:51	#31
thelem Inactive Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Portsmouth for Uni, and Bristol Age: 42 Services: Portsmouth: ntl Family, 2Mbps and Talk Unlimited Bristol: Telewest Supreme, 4Mbps and Talk Unlimite Posts: 156	Re: [Merged] So here it is, Merry Merger! You can't really count wholesale ADSL lines as equal to BT Openworld/BT Yahoo!/BT whatever customers. On a wholesale line BT provide the connection from the customer's house to the ISP's network. They do not provide access to the internet itself, they do not provide email/newsgroup/content etc, they do not provide technical support, they do not advertise. Basically what they do provide is pretty similar to what they provided for dialup - and you wouldn't say everyone who dials up over a bt line gets their internet from BT.