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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:22 Jun 2001 at 12:04:20
Subject:Re: ADSL (was What's going on?)

Robert Wilson said,

> Hi Neil,

>>Anyone suggesting this is a BT tactic to prevent people leaving as soon
>>as they can is completely wrong... aren't they?

> Don't they have to recover their equipment if you no longer wish to use it?
> After that don't you pay the other ISP for installation?
> Or do they use BT equipment too?

If you switch your dialup ISP from BT Internet to Freeserve, do BT come
and uninstall your phone line and give you a new one?

The equipment is BT Ignite's, it's the ADSL splitter faceplate on the
phone socket and the USB modem. You use that whichever ISP you connect
to, just like you use the same phone line for any dialup ISP. BT have
been very successful in blurring the distinction between the pipe
connecting your computer to the ISP and the ISP themselves.

They are completely separate. Just as you can connect to a good ISP or a
crap one via the same phone line, so you can with ADSL. The only
difference is that you can only connect to one at a time. changing ISPs
only requires a change at the exchange to route your connection to a
different ISP.

Cheers

Neil



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