Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All local network is delivered to domestic > premises either by BT/ Openreach (which has a > Universal Service Obligation) or by NTL/ Virgin - > who provide where they can make money, mainly in > cities and conurbations. > > Only services branded Virgin are delivered over > the Virgin local network (which is not required to > open its network to others) - all other services, > whatever their brand, if delivered over landlines/ > fibre are delivered by Openreach. Some terminate > on equipment in exchanges (racks) which are > provided and maintained by third party suppliers > (local loop unbundling), others will be a service > fully managed on behalf of a wholesale customer by > BT wholesdale. BT itself operates, as a retail > service, Plusnet, as well as its own branded > broadband service. > > If you choose any supplier other than Virgin for a > landline delivered service it is BT Group's > network you will be using (and BT is a significant > supplier of network to mobile companies linking > their cell towers). > > Supply into the business market is more complex. On top of that just so people understand what has been done here, is Virgin has literally dug around London putting their own fibre to serve their network. BT does the same and whereever there isn't a need they just use the copper cables for phones. Now imagine if other companies started doing the same, you'd have London being dug all around from different companies. Imho the only thing that should be done but of course its not because Next Generation and the Internet is not in any politicians Agenda, would have been to make BT more powerful and give BT enough funding to go through and start upgrading its network making London what it should be in 2017.
