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Story: BT woos Wi-Fi virgins

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Yet again BT balances lack of effort with maximum return and succeeds in hobbling with high pricing technology that should be welcomed with open arms by the majority of mobile professionals and students. How long is OFTEL going to be allowed its complicity in the telecoms scam that typifies every aspect of BT operations? DAXED lines that surrepticiously deliver only half the expected dial-up speed; 'Managed' ADSL lines that charge twice the going rate and result in a maximum of inconvenience when the user upgrades to anyone else's service; tied 'local loops' that mean by the time the math is complete BT gets pretty well exactly the same amount of income from any of the so-called 'independents' with the added capability of additional inconvenience to users who are sufficiently aggravated with BT's foot-dragging performance that they move their phone/internet/ADSL account elsewhere and everlasting voice-mail if you contact the company for anything other thann a new sales call. This attitude continues to impair UK competiveness in the global marketplace just to bolster BT's profits and share price. Perhaps the government is prepared to turn a blind eye just so that it can gain access to look in on the traffic in the vague hope of trapping the next band of insurgents. Not all of them need to bomb the underground - some cost our country just as much money and inconvenience by impeding legitimate business every second of every minute of every day of every year.

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