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>>> 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
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>> If you believe this why don't you become a billionaire by installing
>> lines and supplying broadband at half the price of BT then?
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> Hi,
>
>
> I think the trick here is that you become a relatively low level
> millionaire rather than billionaire and avoid excessive return to the top
> of the organisation - only what is necessary / reasonable.
>
> It sounds like you have more of the necessary enthusiasm, gumption, etc.
> :) (something tells me this would probably be something of a pretty large
> job! - lol).
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
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> News Reader
>
>
> P.s. We could always leave it another 50, 100, 250 years and see the
> reality of the statistics on long-term costs etc., depreciation on these
> assets and probably then enjoy BT telling us how much it costs to maintain
> fibre instead.
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Hi,


A further / side thought. Let's wait and see.

The argument of the "it costs this much" line of thinking, concludes that
line rentals must go up in coming years as BT face reducing revenue from
associated products / services (from their traditional monopoly areas as
less and less telephony revenue comes in and competition in the data access
service market eats at any legacy monopoly benefit sales in those areas) and
so less revenue is available to use to subsidise line rental.

I think the reality will be that line rentals or their equivalents over the
next 10, 20, 50 years will decline significantly with near ubiquity of
access options to data services (which is all that counts or matters
really - now and increasingly in the future I would hazard) and with the
real issue or question being cost of data transfer. I.e. with wireless,
fibre, power line, etc.

Further, one can consider the comparators of utility service facilities such
as BT's copper pair, namely gas pipes, electricity supplies, water pipes,
etc. I think that starts to turn a certain enquiring eye on someone's
counting somewhere?


Best wishes,



News Reader