On 23/07/2016 11:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
alan_m wrote:
On 22/07/2016 12:38, John Rumm wrote:

Can you imaging ordering your GPO "internet" facility, and having to
wait six months for an engineer to come out and install your GPO
branded dial up modem, which you rent from them at £4/month extra. Oh,
and you can't have it near the computer, you will need to move that to
the hall!


And not being able to even connect any modern technology* to the phone
line without themselves approving it first. Anyone want to buy an
up-to-date 14.4k modem? We will get around to approving 28.8k modems
some time in the next few years.?

Absolutely. Just like the BBC starting TV in black and white with mono
sound rather than in colour and stereo. And insisting we used tiny CRT TVs
rather than widescreen LCD. Why indeed did they ever use analogue when
everyone knows now that digital is the way to go?


The BBC didn't try to stop anyone using anything they wanted to receive
their broadcasts.

If the old GPO/BT rules/regulations still existed we would still have to
use the old B/W mono analogue system because the wide-screen LCD colour
TVs would take another two years to be approved for connection.
I recall that even phone extension leads had to be approved before
connecting to the phone network. However, rules/regulations were
designed to be broken, by both retailers and customers.





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