Regulator tells BT to open up cable network

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This article is from the BBC site this morning.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35657210

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It's a good start as long as the other providers are not forced to pay for repairs where Openreach failed to maintain their own ducts or allowed them to become clogged up.

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Coming soon to a telegraph pole (Why do we still call them that? Has anyone still got a telegraph in use) near you.....................

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As welcome as it may be it could end up causing all manner of issues especially where road works are concerned, I don't think for a minute that the competitors who want to lay cables along the same route will meet in a bid to work together to reduce their costs and disruption. More likely a free for all with them trampling over each other in a bid to be first.
@twocvbloke - Shutter might 

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@ twocvbloke    Certainly do, and use it every day ......
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32369450@N02/22774770776/
and here is one I made earlier (late last year ).  https://www.flickr.com/photos/32369450@N02/24206662476/
and another one... just for fun.....  but it does work ! ! !..    https://www.flickr.com/photos/32369450@N02/23301507386/

Oh, Yes.... I do have a "telegraph pole" outside my house ! ! ! ! 

[#6]

Your description doesn't say you use the pole but rather a laptop with CWCOM software.

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erm.... telegraph key connected to laptop...... laptop connected to phone line... ... phone line supported by telegraph pole....  ? ? ? ? ? ?   

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I wonder if the bit about compensation for poor line service now to be automatic AND direct to the consumer will apply to Plusnet supplied lines?
I'm a bit sceptical - but optimistic that this will be a good move.
M

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Having dealt with one of the smaller local fibre companies (in a professional capacity), this scares me.
They were incompetent. At the end of their disorganised project, nobody had any idea where exactly their new ducts ran, and after pestering them time and time again, they still couldn't provide drawings. They made a mess of the existing ducts.

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What's this?  BT OR engineers pole  dancing for a laptop?