Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!nucsrl!telecom-request From: tuvie!iiasa.local!wnp@relay.eu.net (Wolf PAUL) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: UK Deregulation - Big News Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 16:16:54 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: Wolf PAUL Organization: Intl Inst for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 195, Message 1 of 12 In article John.Slater@uk.sun.com (John Slater) writes: ) The White Paper is seen as a blow for BT after several months of hard ) lobbying. It prohibits the company from distributing entertainment ) services, including television, over its network, while allowing the ) cable TV operators to provide phone service. ) Good news on the whole, I feel. Your last sentence above does not sound so good to me. And what is the good of allowing the P.O. to provide phone service once again -- why then was BT split off from the P.O. in the first place? On a different note: what exactly are "lifetime telephone numbers"? Wolf Paul W.N.Paul, Int. Institute f. Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg--Austria PHONE: +43-2236-71521-465 INTERNET: wnp%iiasa@relay.eu.net FAX: +43-2236-71313 UUCP: uunet!iiasa!wnp HOME: +43-2236-618514 BITNET: tuvie!iiasa!wnp@awiuni01.BITNET