BT as you know, can’t get their act together. Despite being in my flat for over a fortnight, I still don’t have a working telephone line. I expect an engineer on Tuesday.
Even more worryingly, in my search for an alternative, it transpired that my area is not covered by Telewest, or NTL, the only cable providers of note in the country. It is staggering that my area isn’t covered by cable.
Then I called Homechoice, a provider of on-demand TV, cable and telephone services. They can’t do anything without a BT line. You might recall from an earlier post that Bulldog, the 8Mb expensive broadband operator, who install telephone lines, can’t do anything without BT doing something first.
As a result of all this, it’s become very clear that we still have a monopoly in this country for telephone line provision. How daft is that? All the other service providers are hamstrung by their reliance on line provision by BT, and the cable providers deserve their financial woes if they can’t even manage to cover London properly.
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