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Shaun Orchard wrote: > > Also, there is that old chestnut about BT apparently wanting to fibre > the country up back in the 80s, but Thatcher, having just handed out > the cable franchises, refused to allow them to do it (and that is also > why until the mid 2000s, BT weren't allowed to run a television > service). Not sure whether the former is true, though. > > Shaun > Ah ha! 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. UK was penny wise pound foolish. -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- 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