BT fibre optic

ukcarper

penrhyn wrote: »

What hard work is that exactly, the UK's telephone infrastructure was buit by companies such as STC, GEC, Marconi, Plessey etc, who had to fight continuous battles with BT because they always insisted on there own versions of standard products. you can only marvel at the number of racks rejected for being the wrong shade of light straw.

That's rubbish BT installed lots of the network themselves.

penrhyn

For example?

ukcarper

I have personally installed System X concentrators and Megastream exchange equipment.

Long time since light straw.

kwikbreaks

I'm pretty much certain that all the upgrades from the old mechanical Strowger exchanges were done after the privatisation. Certainly all the ADSL work was long long afterwards.

Plus they were not "given" the old GPO network they bought it although admittedly at a knock down price. I'm no great fan of BT but anybody harking back to the "good old days" of Post Office Telephones must have the strongest set of rose tinted glasses it's possible to obtain because compared to today the service and pricing were abysmal.