BT may have your broadband boobs/testicles in a vice - they can now charge what they like to retailers of their proposed high-speed fibre network
CLICK HERE for details. 
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 11:38:52
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SeasideMan
Pro - Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 13:17:20
If I build a car park, isn't it fair that I should charge you to park on it? If you don't like my charges, you can just choose to not park there. Can't you?
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Munzly
- http://poppycock.blog.co.uk/
- Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 13:22:07
Except that a monopoly can charge whatever it likes. Would you pay £200 an hour maybe for parking?
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SeasideMan
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- Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 13:36:54
The article you link to mentions that Virgin also have a network, you can gain access from Sky now too, and there is C&W as well. BT do not have a monopoly. There is an astute comment on the link too:
'"Ofcom said BT Retail must be treated without favour."
Hence BT wholesale can charge whatever it wants but BT Retail will be paying it too. Anything else would be treating with favour'
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Middleagedbloke
Pro - Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 13:32:25
This is more than a tadge worrying. One of my PT jobs is providing households with telephony, broadband and other utilities at a much cheaper rate than BT and the other major names. I wonder how that is going to effect us?
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menhir
- http://www.myword.blog.co.uk
- Tuesday, 03. Mar, 2009 @ 17:25:03
Well, I don't want a Toshiba laptop with a £100 cash back or not, so the broadband articles and ads can stop flashing this uninteresting prospect at me. I wonder if Toshiba are putting up some of the filthy money to defray some of the BT giant's expenditure.
We have had fibre optics in this remote region for years, it doesn't mean we get the best broadband, far from it. The optics were laid with a view to preparing this location for the higher technical developments that were on the horizon.
I am not clear if we have cable TV, we may have. Mercifully, we are unlikely to experience switch off for digital TV and radio services for a good chunk of time to come as there is no provision for it. I think, that when reception black spots and time lags have been resolved, hopefully before it is remembered there are areas that haven't been forced into technologies that don't work in those localities, I might just consider giving an update a whirl.
I am not a Luddite, far from it, I just want to have something that does what it says on the box. These current technologies and so-called high speed this that and the other, do not meet their own written standards where I live and in many other places. -
Deep sighs...seems we get charged through the nose for everything today and have no choice with huge companies having the clout to manipulate the market...GBHs...XX