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On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 14:34 +0100, Eion MacDonald wrote: > Way back in those Thatcher days I worked for a company making machinery > to make fibre optic cables. BT yes, they wanted to relay all cable as > fibre optic, they wanted a subsidy of about many billions to do all > (repeat all) exchanges - no deal with UK government. We sold our plant > to Korea as no real market in UK after Thatcher decision of no subsidy. > Guess why Korea has 100MB fibre to house connections now! Also almost > dominates fibre technology research. Thanks for the info. I always wondered why they did not take the opportunity back then. What a difference it would have made. James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html