On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:50:00 +0100, Dexter@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

>On 1 Sep 2005 05:26:24 -0700, "Mathew Curtis"
><mathew.j.curtis@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Wow that was very reserved dex well done :-) and I do agree with you
>>100% there is a small handful of very good voip providers and more and
>>more people seem to be doing away with landlines and going the voip
>>route
>I would think if NTL and Telewest where to spend a bit/lot of money
>and had the same coverage that BT has with ADSL then they could easily
>knock BT completely out of residential line provision, the way with
>VOIP is not having to pay BT for line rental at all and having an
>Internet and phone service combined for the price of a broadband
>connection . Has it is shortly going to be possible to have a 10 Mb
>connection with TW for 35.00 a month I would think people who can
>get cable will be moving over and slinging out BT and their ADSL
>ISP's .

I don't see how anything will change much. Most of the cost of a BT
phone line is for the provision of the physical copper pair into your
building. If you do away with that you'll still need to replace it
with something else to run an IP connection over, whether it be a
cable provided by BT or anyone else. Digging up the street to run
cables to individual buildings doesn't come cheap, whoever does it.

Chris