British Telecom follows AT&T's lead in wanting to end reliable phone services
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/telecoms/11696314/BT-aims-to-shut-down-traditional-phone-network-to-help-it-battle-US-tech-giants.html The obligation to maintain the traditional phone network falls on Openreach, the closely regulated BT division responsible for the national telecoms infrastructure, which must provide retail rivals such as Sky and TalkTalk with wholesale access on equal terms. The future of Openreach is currently up for debate, with Sky and TalkTalk arguing it should be fully separated from the rest of BT to create a financially independent company. Ofcom is looking at the issue as part of its once-a-decade review of the communications market. - - - What this is really about is screwing customers and having people die in emergencies because there's no longer any reliable landline service. What goes dead first in serious emergencies? Cellular and Internet services. What stays up? Copper landlines with central office power, not field batteries that run out in hours. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
