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[quote][i]Originally posted by evilrob[/i] [quote][i]Originally posted by John[/i] all the different parts, which are now completely separate, still all operate under the BT banner, until they want to pass you elsewhere, in which case it's suddenly openreach, or local business or whatever. [/quote] OpenReach are precisely why the likes of TalkTalk and Sky can operate as their existence allows fair and equal access to the exchanges and network. OpenReach is to telecoms what National Grid is to the UK's power infrastructure. BT the consumer business are entirely beholden to OpenReach same as any other phone/broadband provider. [quote][i]Originally posted by Russ[/i] hold a monopoly over the telecommunication network[/quote] No they don't. Any company is welcome to install its equipment in the telephone exchanges via a process known as Local Loop Unbundling (LLU). TalkTalk is probably the best-known of the LLU providers. Then you've got Virgin Media whose network is entirely separate from that of OpenReach. If you haven't got the (considerable) capital required to buy and maintain multiplexing equipment you can start a phone company using Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) and Carrier Pre-Select (CPS), where OpenReach look after the connection from the customer's premises to the exchange but your customer's calls are routed off the OpenReach network without the need for your customers to dial a prefix or install any special equipment. You can buy minutes from various wholesale providers like Colt or Gamma and bill your customers what you like. I know this because I've done it - I project managed the startup of a residential phone and broadband company called YourCalls.net (since sold to PlusNet) - who were the first phone company in the UK to offer a fully online customer service experience (essentially the home phone equivalent of internet banking); the low overheads meant they could offer line rental and unlimited calls to all UK local and national geographic numbers for £9.99 a month - another UK first; it won the Federation of Communications Services Service Provider of the Year award (the Oscars of the Telecoms world, beating TalkTalk) in 2007. At the awards ceremony, I was sat two rows behind Sir Charles Dunstone (chairman of TalkTalk) and he overheard me calling him a cunt, which made my day. Also featured in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 and Tech Track 100 that same year (under the parent company OneBill Telecom). It cost £100,000 to set up, turned over £1.2m in its first year and sold for £8.9m a few years later. The only real monopoly in telecoms in the UK is Kingston Communications in Hull - they own and operate all the telephone and broadband services in Hull (for reasons I can't be bothered to go into) and there's FA you can do about it. [quote][i]Originally posted by Ben G[/i] surely old technology should become cheaper, not more expensive? [/quote] The old copper bell wire infrastructure is deteriorating, and extremely expensive to maintain. Unlike fibre, which by and large once it's in, it's in - and you can keep on cramming more data down it; you're essentially only limited now by how quickly you can encode and decode packets of data into flashes of light at each end. They even break the light down into different colours of the spectrum to pump even more data through the network. I know this because I work for a company that builds and maintains the fastest and most expansive global fibre IP backbone on the planet. Don't get me wrong, BT are a bunch of cunts - just wanted to clear up the misinformation. [Edited on 23-08-2014 by evilrob] [/quote]
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