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

[Kris Davidson]

Well yeah there is that aspect. I mean it's not something I want to
give to the government but then a truly free and competitive system
might not be doable. There would need to be some cooperation at the
backend.

On 21 June 2010 12:20, Arron M Finnon <finux at finux.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:07:15 +0100
> Kris Davidson <davidson.kris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> OMG could you imagine the labour Government in charge off telco's.
> Holy shit from snooping to incompetence.
>
>>
>> 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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