| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 22 Jun 2001 at 15:44:16 |
| Subject: | Re: ADSL (was What's going on?) |
Robert Wilson said,
>>It's what they say will happen, along with a new line test. What happens
> I've tried to look into this, without too much success. :-/
> However, it appears that this is indeed the case.
> BTOpenworld say that when you cancel your account, they recover their
> equipment. (Apparently, the "manta-ray" router gets binned!)
> If another ISP comes along, they have to use BT equipment.
Everyone has to use BT equipment, but this is BT Ignite equipment, not
BT Openwoe equipment. Ignite are the wholesale company providing ADSL
connectivity to the ISPs.
> As I understand it this could mean, in a worst case scenario, that when you
> switch ISP, a BT engineer will come out, disconnect your router, bin it,
> connect up a new one and charge your new ISP for this. They in turn, charge
> you!
That's not worst case. Worst case is when the engineer disconnects your
old setup, installs your new one and it fails the line test. Bye bye ADSL :(
This really needs to be sorted, before the first ADSL subscriptions come
up for renewal.
Cheers
Neil
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