On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:22:24 -0000, Arfa Daily wrote:

Considering what it costs these days to get a plumber or electrician or
builder to your house, or if you look at the hourly rate your local
garage charges, I don't think that BT's connection charges are "not in
the real world" at all - even if it is 120 quid.

Quite, it's a bargin for a new install of a line. Say engineer on
national average wage of 24k or about £15/hr takes a morning to fully
jumper the line from the exchange to customer that £60 in wages plus
employers NI, Pension etc not to mention the costs associated with
the van for the engineer, tools and consumables.

"Same day take overs" are free non-same day have a nominal fee as
hopefully it's just a setting in the exchange card that the line
might still be connected to but there is no guarantee that an
previously used line is still connected back to the exchnage. Faults
on other lines will be cured by using "unused" pairs in the same
cable.

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Cheers
Dave.