Since
the government passed a bill to de-regulate the telecoms industry,
it has been possible to use alternative carriers (telecom companies
such as Cable & Wireless, NTL, Energis etc) other than BT
for the routing of your telephone calls. This applies to both
residential and business phone lines and is possible even though
BT in most cases have still provided your physical telephone
lines.
Do not misunderstand, this does not mean that BT are full
of benevolence, they do it simply because Oftel (government
funded "watchdog" to the telecoms industry) have
told them they have to by law. Poor old BT ;-))
Lets be clear here, although it is possible to have alternative
companies supply the physical conection to the PSTN (public
switch telephone network), this is not relevant to LCR. As
far as LCR is concerned think of it as similar to a coach
company taking you from London to Manchester, the coach company
does not own the roads you travel on. Unlike British Rail
when they take you from London to Manchester you are traveling
along tracks owned by British Rail, Virgin trains however
still use the same British Rail owned tracks.
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