<melonite@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> If you use ADSL, most likely you are a BT or Kingston Telecom
> customer, and therefore still have to pay your telephone line rental
> to either of the respective telecom providers.
>
> On the prime ministers website a petition has been created to petition
> the prime minister to try and place some pressure on the telecom
> providers in the UK to make them drop the requirement to have to pay
> telephone line rental.
>
> The reasons is, BT and KT call charges are way over priced if you
> compare to VoIP, the call quality is not that different either, so why
> should we pay line rental for a service we have no intention on using
> for voice calls, when all we need the BT or KT line for is simply to
> have ADSL Broadband?
>
> If you support this then please feel free to sign the petition which
> can be found at [url]http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NakedADSL/[/url]
>
> Also feel free to pass this petition URL to your friends, family and
> colleagues.
>
> With Thanks
>[/color]


Hi,


I think this is a very fair and good point.

Whilst it is equally, to an order (say 50% of current line rental costs),
fair to say that lines cost money to install, maintain and repair, etc. and
hence current line rental costs are fair (and yes BT and others will argue
that they lose money based on line rental alone), I think on balance...

The reality is that that is Bu***t... as I say I will give a large and
healthy spoonful of disbelief / benefit of the doubt, and accept that 50% of
current BT line rental rates might be fair / reasonable.

However, look at everywhere else in the world, and don't allow yourself to
buy into, pander to or be suckered into the "UK" X inefficiency bullpap,
where enough (half?) the population (or more) allow themselves to accept and
believe a self-fulfilling prophecy of cost, margin and profit rates that
bites everyone in the butt except those who have a vested interest. It
really is a false economy (to allow yourself to be suckered in / sell your
soul to the misguided "UK" X inefficiency camp - higher costs, lower output,
etc. and all believed as necessary / reality, etc.!). If others in the world
can do an order of magnitudes better so can we.

Further, get an accountant to have to pay the bills with the correct
incentivisation (i.e. on the right side - to optimise and make the product /
service cheap rather than expensive) and they will happily provide 20
million people in this country with a line service for equivalent rental of
£5 per month. (read and note further to this / in addition to this - THESE
LINES HAVE NOT DEPRECIATED YET!). What do you think is the life of a line?
What do you think is the write down rate claimed by BT et al. against these
assets, costs and revenues? As I say ignore that, and the rest of the world
can do it, include that and any properly terms of reference instructed
accountant will conclude the same.


Best wishes,



News Reader


P.s. ... and good luck with the petition. etc. :)