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The end (almost) of an era!!
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---If UK government had invested as heavily in communications as they have in useless and pointless green energy policy, the whole country could have had comms technology that would have actually been beneficial
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Uk could have had fibre to every home back in the 80's,but instead bt was sold off and the funds allocated for fibre were fudged through creative accounting to make the books look good.yet another one of thatchers legacys.
unknownparticle:
Fibre for phone lines before the internet?! What would have been the point?
MK14:
--- Quote from: unknownparticle on November 29, 2022, 09:41:36 pm ---Fibre for phone lines before the internet?! What would have been the point?
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Maybe it could have been used to create lots of TV channels, at potentially high resolution (but probably with deteriorating programme quality, i.e. 3 good quality channels ONLY, vs 150 somewhat useless channels (ones that don't show the best of entertainment), with black and white movies from 60 years ago, which were not of very good programme quality, even at the time, and tons of adverts), a bit like what was latter known as Virgin Cable (TV), and earlier names (various takeovers and name changes, etc, in the past).
Zero999:
--- Quote from: MK14 on November 29, 2022, 03:12:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on November 29, 2022, 02:52:30 pm ---BT are required to supply vulnerable customers with a UPS solution for powering the telephone during power cuts, F.O.C. It's a £60 UPS from Amazon more or less, but it will run a <10W handset for about an hour or two. The telephone exchange/fibre unbundlers have backup batteries within them, not sure how long these last.
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I've done some googling around it, thanks to your post. It seems BT (and perhaps other suppliers), are getting around those rules, by either ignoring them, or saying "THIS is ONLY a BROADBAND service, no phone services, included with it".
But there is lots of information, and it is difficult to digest it all, and know who is 100% right, and who is NOT, as regards the other websites.
Unfortunately, people in (e.g.) their eighties/nineties, who really need this, on safety grounds. Potentially, don't realize/understand why/what/how/reasons why they need it in the first place, and are probably NOT able to sort out something, technically complicated like that themselves. So really, I think it is a partial mess-up, by the authorities, standards creators, etc.
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I'm not especially vulnerable. The UPS came with the house, which was a new build. It takes 12V from a 12V 1A mains adaptor and presumably gives 12V out, but I haven't measured the voltage and the label is probably on the back, where it's fixed to the wall. I don't know how long it provides a backup for. I'm not too worried because it's very unlikely my mobile won't get any signal, the UPS's battery will have run flat and I need to make an emergency call.
eti:
BT are bumbling fools always were.
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