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themadhippy:

--- Quote ---BT are bumbling fools always were.
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The engineering side of bt was often at the forefront of technology,as was there predecessor ,the gpo. But the need for shareholder profits soon stopped that.
MK14:

--- Quote from: eti on November 29, 2022, 11:07:53 pm ---BT are bumbling fools always were.

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You can't say that.  Maybe you are too young to know, but BT created the really nice, Buzby's adverts.  How can you dislike a company which brings the Buzby's into existence?





MK14:

--- Quote from: Zero999 on November 29, 2022, 10:52:21 pm ---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.

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Thanks.  I'm pleased to know that the (UPS) option exists.

I wonder who has to pay, when, sooner or later.  That UPS device breaks and/or if it can 'silently' break, i.e. without giving any warning signs that it has passed its useful (e.g. battery) life expectancy.
If it is considered part of the infrastructure, I suspect they (BT), would be responsible.  But if not, the customer would probably have to sort it out, and foot the bill.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on November 29, 2022, 08:41:34 pm ---
--- 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.

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I was there, but can't remember that detail. What I do remember is not being allowed to connect anything to the phone line and waits of forever for a line to be installed, or just a phone connected to it. If Thatcher's government was the one that removed all that and let me connect modems and pretty much anything I liked to the line, I'd find it hard to get irate with them.
IanB:

--- Quote from: PlainName on November 30, 2022, 12:05:48 am ---I was there, but can't remember that detail. What I do remember is not being allowed to connect anything to the phone line and waits of forever for a line to be installed, or just a phone connected to it. If Thatcher's government was the one that removed all that and let me connect modems and pretty much anything I liked to the line, I'd find it hard to get irate with them.

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I do also remember that time, when phones were hard-wired into a junction box, and you could only get your phone from a limited selection offered by the GPO or its successors. Anyone remember the "TrimPhone", a sleeker and more compact alternative to the big, clunky, traditional phone that was previously all you could get?

The important change was the de-regulation that let you have RJ11 BT modular phone sockets installed and buy your own phones from any retailer to plug into them. The other detail was that you weren't "supposed" to plug American phones or modems into the UK system, even though they did actually work.
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