Cheers Infin... just lost ezesurf, signed up with IG Click tonite, wow got thru to support on first try, that's a good sign.
Back to the thread, just seen this on
www.ispreview.co.uk:
Oftel Slaps BT over leased lines
" - By:mark.j @ 4:50:PM GMT - August 29,2000 - Here we go again, this time Oftel have decided to slap BT over leased lines according to The Register. So in other words we'll have to wait another year before anything actually gets done, wonderful, just get freecall:
BT is anti-competitive and has been abusing its monopoly position, according to the winged watchdog Oftel.
A review of the leased lines market found that "competition was not effective in the retail market resulting in prices higher than they would be in a competitive market."
One of the proposals on the table is to force BT to offer leased lines at competitive wholesale rates so other telcos can get in on the act.
David Edmonds, DG of Oftel, said today: "Greater competition in the leased lines market will mean a better deal for UK consumers."
However, to get to that point Oftel will have to go through a long-winded, drawn-out, tortuous, laboured, tedious, time wasting, slow, unhurried, bureaucratic consultation process before finally...finally laying down the law.
We all know BT is anti-competitive and we've heard this all before, even a child of 10 could cite the reasons. So why do we have to wait for Oftel to takes ages before actually doing anything, don't just say it, do it! Ah well that’s the life of a regulator that tries its best but ends up making things worse (FRIACO Hybrid). - "