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		keithpeter on Jan 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How T-Mobile wanted to change itself but ended up ... 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.

sliverstorm on Jan 2, 2016 [–]

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

keithpeter on Jan 3, 2016 | [–]

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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