In article <688e73F2r8jeaU1@mid.individual.net>,
"Roger Mills" <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> writes:
> 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.

You would've thought that it was in their interests from the off to at least
share masts, but apparently not. That's why there are three on the hill
opposite my house.

The whole business is screwed up. They can't, between them, offer useful
contracts, get the coverage right, do decent customer service, run shops,
anything. Then there's the whole `phone locked to network' thing. That
mobile phones are popular in the UK is in spite of these largely-useless
companies, not because of them.
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SAm.