[dundee] Striking workers will curb network upgrades, claims BT

Kris Davidson davidson.kris at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 11:07:38 UTC 2010


I kind of hope there is some high profile downtime or something. I
mean BT broke up but (BT) Open Reach and BT Wholesale still have a
monopoly. A free market system on the back end might not be practical
but if it was government owned or something it might be a bit better.

Kris

On 21 June 2010 11:59, Arron M Finnon <finux at finux.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:33:55 +0100
> Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I shall be whipping out my dongle, madam - Carry on Computing.
>
> All though i thought that maybe a solution do you think that the
> dongles at some point have to go over a BT maintained equipment.  I
> don't know just wondered.
>
> This whole situation could be quite a bit of a pain in the bum for
> e-commerce full-stop
>
>>
>> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/bt_strike/
>> >
>> >
>> > Striking workers will curb network upgrades, claims BT
>> >
>> > Just out of interest for the sysadmin/business bods and the internet
>> > addicts, what plans do you have in place to cover if your connection
>> > goes down.
>> >
>>
>
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