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On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jason Clifford wrote:

> BT scraped their xDSL trials and withdrew their statements that a DSL
> service would be available costing approx � 40.00 and instead turned
> around and began saying they intend to offer a much reduced service at
> prices which will mean an end user price of � 200.00 per month.
> 
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I know this probably betrays my stay in the US, but is there no legal
redress for this? Perhaps under EU competition law? If BT is using their
monopoly control of the local loop to protect their leased-line business,
per-minute phone charging and doddery old ISDN surely they deserve a
thorough kicking in court?

What the hell is the government doing about this? They keep banging on
about the new economy, electronic commerce and being at the forefront of
stuff and yet the principle technology that allows this (consumer
broadband access), which has been broadly available in North America for
two years and is being widely rolled out in other EU coutries, is simply
not available in the UK.

Truly pathetic and I shall be writing to my MP...

Nick

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