On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:12:43PM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:57:21PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
> Nils Philippsen thought:
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Lothan wrote:
> >
> > > On a complete different tangent, I never did understand how folks in the UK
> > > could tolerate metered service for local calls. It just seems so...
> > > uncivilized. Of course, I was born and bred in the USA so I come from a
> > > completely different background and point of view.
> >
> > (It's similar in Germany:) It's not that you have much of a choice when
> > you're more or less forced to use what the monopoly gives to you. For
> > instance...
>
> And I thought mainland Europeans had it nice already. Here in Ireland,
> the "local loop unbundling" as it's called is busily failing to happen.
Good grief, you could be describing the UK here. British Telecom is
dragging its feet in exactly the same way as this Eircom bunch over
exactly the same issue: unbundling the local loop.
We have a watchdog for BT, of course. Oftel. But um.
Oftel: "Oy, BT! We've given you warning after warning! When are you
going to unbundle the local loop?"
BT: "Bog off. We'll get around to it."
Oftel: "Ok, okay. As you were then."
Telsa
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