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[Steve Kennedy]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:21:03AM -0700, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:

[snip]
> > Also you have to know who's terminating it. You can make an assumption
> > re BT termination, but directly connected businesses may use another
> > telco with different termination rates etc.
> > A lot of UK telco's have difficulty pricing UK termination because of
> > this (or risk taking a hit if they get it wrong).
> Yeah, although some companies (C&W for example) have built out their own
> network and can terminate cheaper than BT so ...

Err, B*llox.

BT own 85% of the infrastructure into premises i.e. most UK calls will
terminate into a BT line.

C&W have interconnected with BT at MSPs (multi-service points) and have
bought capacity to the actual DLEs (digital local exchanges). There are
around 5,600 DLEs in the UK and you need to connect to around 770 of
them to get single or dual tandem access. Other operators have done this
too (Energis - now owned by C&W, THUS, Opal [Carphone Warehouse] and
others).

C&W terminate cheaper to be competetive. BT are regulated as they have
SMP and have to differentiate wholesale/retail pricing etc. BT COULD
terminate cheaper than any other provider if they were allowed to.


Steve

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