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Aha, that explains it.

Could we borrow John Legere for a bit here in the UK?

I'd love to get rid of the landline, but I need it for a couple of gigs worth of data a month. Believe it or not, it is cheaper to pay line rental to BT and £10 a month to EE than to get that from a mobile supplier using a mifi.



It's easy to believe. IMO wireless bandwidth will always be more expensive than wired, assuming the copper is already in the ground.


I can see your point, but then, that copper wire (actually solid aluminium wire in parts of the UK) has been down there since the 1950s/60s!




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