I was informed by BT on Monday that I cannot receive broadband because they can't be asked to bother upgrading their shitty 1920s copper wires on decaying telegraph poles.
Broadband is only available to those lucky enough to live within 3 miles of the nearest exchange or have cable.
I have neither, because BT is a shitty and disgraceful monopoly which should be crushed and the entire telecoms network opened up
I feel that BT is rather unfairly treated. People complain about their monopoly (which is being removed) but then still seem to expect BT to take responsibility for everything to do with our phone network. Did it ever enter your head that BT have little incentive to upgrade their network if it means that other telecoms operators are going to use it and so they won't benefit from this upgrade?
I also think they've moved pretty darn quickly considering that high speed internet using ADSL *and provided to customers who BT only agreed to provide a voice service to* could never have been perceived to appear so quickly, not that long ago it looked like high speed internet would be provided by developments of ISDN to people who have specifically signed up with BT for internet use.
I think they're doing quite well, ending the use of the DACS system so that people have reliable internet access over their phone line, and developing longer distance cards so that most people can now get at least 512Kbps ADSL.
The smaller newer phone operators only manage to survive because there is the huge monolothic BT there to support them. You think the development of telecoms is being held back by BT's monopoly? Try a week without it: you be screaming for them to come back.
