BT and OpenReach - The Divorce

[Dj_Jestar]

Bin men need paying too, ya know. As well as the rest of the council's financial responsibilities. No room to divert funds from current expenses. Only way to get that kind of cash is through an expensive loan, unless money supposed to time travel back from the future or something?

 

[Glaucus]

just lol, in new developments how are shops, parks and other infrastructure built, that post is so ridiculous.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Privately, is how.

 

[Glaucus]

Privately, is how.

well done, through planning regs, seeing how my first post makes sense and yours make none.
so yu would jsut include it as part of the impact, just liek when they have to expand and alter roads which aren't part of the development.

then they can also add it for pennies to other projects like round here they are currently expanding many miles of roads to add a bus lane, would cost particularly nothing to add them in at this stage.

but its the uk all over to many people with opinions like yours which is why will still just do stuff as they've always been done, its why we are still building expensive efficient housing. When there's better solution on basically every matrix

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Yes, you're totally right. Public spaces and infrastructure are never owned, paid for, and constructed by private organisations.

 

[Glaucus]

just what, nothing you are saying makes any sense.

 

[Energize]

personally don't see why its being split up,

Imo its government meddling in the affairs of a business,

should have never have been sold off in the first place with the infrastructure but you cant just go carving up companies because they are successful.

personally speaking if sky and talk talk virgin media or who ever want to compete then fine let them, but let them build their own networks to compete in the way VM and its legacy firms has

Agreed, the government should not be interfering with businesses like this as **** as the situation is.

 

[cosmogenesis]

I just switched to Vodafone (FTTC) and now its awesome for £28 a month.

 

[ubersonic]

We have an appalling habit in this country of trying to upgrade and improve on ancient crap rather than build new. Roads, Railways, Internet etc.

You can blame most of the MP's stealing the money and laughing at the working class.

In fairness you can hardly blame the MPs, it's not the MPs holding up the 21st century upgrades to the railway network (HS2) it's environmentalists. And rest assured if the MPs thought the public would agree to building new motorways instead of expanding existing ones they would have gone for it, but there's always a few whiners who spoil it for everyone (I.E Queensferry/Deeside extension of the M56 which had to be abandoned after millions spent).

As for the internet, the switch to fibre is happening but it's not an overnight thing. If Sky/VM/etc felt like contributing instead of whining it would be done much quicker.