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

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Mon Jun 21 11:26:04 UTC 2010


Yes - Open Reach is supposed to be independent from BT, so there really should 
be no impact on engineering...hang on....sorry, just saw a pig with wings 
flying by

> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Arron "finux" Finnon
> >
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