[Wylug-discuss] Re: Linux-friendly POTS-to-VOIP-to-POTS

[Dave Fisher]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:00:54AM +0100, lee at leeevans.org wrote:
> Maybe I misread the original email, but choosing a LLU'd service doesn't 
> mean you can get rid of your BT landline. 

You probably didn't misread it.  It looks like I might have been
suckered into believing the spin coming out of Offcom and the rest of
the Telco industry about the 'wonders' of LLU.

I suspect, that like a lot of other people, I was assuming that having
different providers' kit at the other end of 'the last mile' meant that
BT could be relieved of control of those 1760 yards of copper.

Your comments, and those of others, now lead me to believe that (as
usual) we are simply being offered a new range of services (e.g. wizzily
fast ADSL) on top of the basic BT infrastructure.

It seems that this new 'world of choice' amounts to choosing whether you
buy services at the top of the stack from a direct supplier or someone
who rents from BT ... gee wiz!

Oh, and by the way, it still pisses me off that I was robbed of the
copper, which I owned and paid for when it was laid by the GPO.

> I've just bought a Billion BiPAC 7402VGP - pretty cheap for all the 
> features it includes; hopefully that's not because it's junk! 

 ... mmm ... looks interesting, but I couldn't find a retail supplier or
retail price from Google.  Did you? Or do you know of one?

Dave