OT Mobile phone masts

ROFL

BT will sell you very expensive Diverse Routing. Fibre coming into your
building from different directions. Separate NTE's.

Now if you aint smart enough to ask whether they eventually route
through the same Exchange then you aint deserving of true resilience!!

But even if you were worldly enough to ask and they provided in the
quote *exactly* such a diverse routing commitment, you may find that a
loss of service was the result of a fire in *one* Glasgow exchange.

 

Legend has it that even if your paths start off diversely routed, they
may find their way through the same duct at some point in the future.

 

Not sure what they do now but when I worked for them we would diverse
route as much as possible without charging extra. Local ends were a
different kettle of bananas mind.

Customers that do find the cost of laying a fibre for their sole use
from another exchange 10K away to be a tad on the prohibitive side.

Shit happens.

 

Okay, I'll concede that in the UK, this doesn't look like it's going to
be done in the near future. France is miles ahead of the UK in this
respect. For example, the nearest my phone line goes to a France
Telecom line, is in the same exchange. Otherwise it's all over free.fr
[1] lines. This applies to a number of other French ISPs too as they
can now split off from using FT lines if they so wish (and a lot of
them do).

[1] I know that an ISP != a Telco.

 

Oh indeed that too. Not always deception but lack of knowledge.

Funny thing about those long haul circuit prices. A regulated service
after all. But when a really big Global Services customer needs a multi
meg or gig service, and there is a competitor, somehow BT can do it
surprisingly cheaply.

 

There is lots of non BT fibre in the UK and lost of unbundled exchanges
but it's a patchwork jigsaw and mostly confined to large population
centres.

But the UK is diving towards being a very low ranking "developed"
country so don't expect it to improve. We can't be seen to be doing
better than some other bunch of cunts anywhere else in the world. It
isn't fair after all.

But we do better than the US National Power Grid so WGAF ;o)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

"Fewer"

 

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:05:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

[...]

If you consider writing to UKRM to be a formal or scientific usage then
yes,
in colloquial usage "data" is uncountable.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Leszek Karlik

WTF would you know? ;^)

 

On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:43:50 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

[...]

I spent five (OK, more like seven) years studying English (a fascinating,
albeit slightly twisted language with a definite tendencies towards rape
and pillage), I'd hate all this time to go to waste.

Then again, I'm getting a distinct feeling of being whooshed. ;-)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Leszek Karlik

<ding>

(Translate *that*, you fucker!)

 

What was I thinking!

I'm a quite likes some of fewer datas.

 

On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:16 +0100, Wicked Uncle Nigel

[...]

<dong> <the> <witch> <is> <dead> ?

BTW, anybody seen the new SyFy "Alice" yet?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, ginge

*Much* more betterer.

 

Kinda.

The biggest non-BT fibre network in the UK is, iirc, the old Racal/BRT
network that runs alongside the railway network. Owned by Global
Crossing these days, I think.

But that still leaves you with the problem of getting from the railway
to the customer premises. No prizes for guessing who ends up providing
the tail...

 

This is UKRM. It doesn't matter it's countable or not, it's still
"fewer".

Fucking newbie.

 

Exactly. Patchwork. Companies either dig or BT cleans them out. And unless
you happen to be a registered Telco/ISP then digging up miles of highway is
a bit "tricky".

And yet BT manage to be less than stellar.

 

Digging is expensive. Look how profitable the cable companies were
around the turn of the decade.

 

Fewer datums ITYF

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