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Unmetered access is here! Well, THERE...

  • 14-11-2000 12:00pm
    #1
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    Source: The Register

    If a new Oftel report, out today, is to be taken at face value, the UK may soon have real unmetered Internet access.

    The report may be 72 pages long, filled with yet more tedious acronyms and as interesting as reading the phone book, but the report appears to indicate that Oftel has insisted upon BT extending the FRIACO unmetered Net access system into something practical.

    ...

    Full story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/14692.html

    complaintsto:info@odtr.ie

    adam


Comments

  • #2
    m1ke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭m1ke


    and this is of use to us in some way ?

    Are Britain gonna invade us again... imprison us and lay down cable everywhere ?


  • #3
    SickBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    You read my mind Boom!!! NICEONE biggrin.gif


  • #4
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    and this is of use to us in some way ?

    Nope. Just pointing out how far behind we are. Behind BT? God help us...

    adam


  • #5
    TwoShedsJackson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,438 ✭✭✭TwoShedsJackson


    Eircom are two years behind BT, at least.


  • #6
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    From netmag-news, .net magazine's mailing list:
    The UK may finally (touch wood) look forward to
    unlimited Net access. But then again, haven't we
    heard that before? Telecom industry regulator Oftel
    has finally taken the hard line with its prodigal son
    BT and told it to stop charging other companies on
    its network by the second. Competitors are relieved
    that Oftel have at last forced the so-called
    'unbundling of the local loop'. They won't get too
    excited yet though, as the rollout will be in stages
    from next February.

    Meanwhile, the first World Internet Forum has been
    cancelled. No, not because delegates had seen the
    spelling mistakes on e-minister (and speaker)
    Patricia Hewitt's Web site, but instead nobody is
    interested. The event was the idea of Labour MP
    Derek Wyatt and was intended to try and discuss
    uniting global policy on various Net matters. It
    sounds a bit boring really, doesn't it?
    bard2.gif


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  • #7
    Zapper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 498 ✭✭Zapper


    I live in the UK(scotland don't yer know) and i have to point out that certain areas have had unmetered access for the last year or so...still nice to hear its going widespread with BT now...shame u potato-pickers are a wee bit behind us biggrin.gif
    vince1.gif
    Chemical Chance.


  • #8
    pertinax
    Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭pertinax


    Isnt iol no limits unmetered access?


  • #9
    Gerry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,457 ✭✭✭Gerry


    unmetered means all the time, not just off peak


  • #10
    THE SPERMINATOR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 324 ✭✭THE SPERMINATOR


    What chafes my knacker sack is that BT and the ESB are in bed together already i,e Ocean. So why o why o why cant we get some goodies over here ffs.I beleive bt is using the esb,s underground pipes the run lines as we speak but i could be wrong hehehehe.

    [HIV]Stonemason


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