Roger Mills wrote:

> It may not come to anything but, interestingly, BBC Parliament was showing
> something relevant last night. A Conservative MP is trying to use the
> 10-minute Bill procedure to initate legislation which would encourage (but
> not compel) mobile phone companies to set up inter-operability arrangements
> to address just this issue. The analogy was drawn of cashpoint machines -
> where you can use Bank A's machine to draw money out of your account with
> Bank B.
>
> Similarly - it was suggested - if you have a mobile phone with Operator X,
> you should be able to access the network via Operator Y's mast if X doesn't
> have one in a suitable place. It was suggested that this would actually save
> money for the operators - who could pay for bandwidth on rival networks
> rather than extending their own infrastructure.
>
> Could be a while before anything happens, though. <g>

It's a very good idea though. I'm old enough to remember when AA and RAC
roadside phone boxes had the same access key, and you could call either
organisation for either's box.

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Mark
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