Re: VPN and BT was NTL & Caller-ID?

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Gordon wrote:
>
> >Paul
> >I know you have a thing about BT
>
> Only that they are a scheming greedy monopolistic monolith, managed
> initially by total incompetents left over from when they were first
> privatised, and subsequently by scheming greedy ingrates, whose sole
purpose
> in life is to exploit their captive customer base to ridiculous
levels,
> whilst simultaneously performing every underhand trick in the book to
stifle
> genuine competition and resist any effort to open up their monopoly to
other
> players, to the utter detriment of all but the fat cats on the BT
board.


Sounds like telecom new zealand.

They are spouting there no servers on domestic ADSL connections drivvel
again about people "overloading it" with kazaa/morpheus... Its a
128k
capped service, and I can upload at 15.5kbytes/sec, its just the
downloads that are stuck below dialup speeds.

For tbose that dont know, they have had a kiwishare obligation ever
since they were privatised in 1990 or thereabouts, it guarenteed free
local phone calls to domestic customers. They have just
"negotiated"
with the govt to get all sorts of exclusions put in it for data calls
and internet access.

Everyone here wants the loop unbundeled, but the govt seem to think that
people are happy getting a 1/2 assed 128kbit connection, or a
unrestricted one at 20cents a meg. I should post my email to my MP over
this whole fiasco. If wireless/cable/another phone company was available
here I would jump in a second.

Your not alone in the UK, incumbent telcos being assholes is a
world-wide epedemic.