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Story: MPs unhappy over ADSL dominance

Posted by: Line Swine (Wednesday 25 February 2004, 4:06 AM)

Yeah right of course BT want FTTH - but as long as the shareholders don't have to pay for it . I'm sure BT would end up asking govt. to stump up the cost of this, even though they are not a privately owned monopoly.
If 60 million population isn't big enough , how do all the CLECs & "baby Bells" in the US survive on a fraction of this number?
The US population is approx. 4.5 times that of the UK,& supports many more telcos than the UK has.
As for the commentor who said the Tories held back BT? If they'd have invested in the technolgy current at the time we'd still be using ISDN (DSL was first developed in 1989).
As BT dislike swapping out obsolete technology, ISDN would have NEVER been implemented because of the upgrade costs from ISDN (the fact that system X exchanges weren't easily retrofitted with ISDN has nothing to do with the relative lack of promotion by BT of ISDN in the UK, honest! Only when ETA 10 exchange equipment was more prevalent was ISDN pushed as a data transmission technology - contrast this with Germany to see what I mean.) So , to all youbelieverrs of the articals in airline magazines I say this - do better research!