BT reselling nosedive?

[Technical Ben]

Probably relevant: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/31/bt_q3_fy2013/

BT's wholesale wing continued on its downward spiral during the one-time national telco's third quarter, with sales tumbling nine per cent to £589m from £645m a year earlier.

Are companies jumping ship?

[Steve]

I think these days the landline phone usage is well down as well.

[Gary]

I think these days the landline phone usage is well down as well.

I would agree, many people just use thier mobiles now, with so many free minutes and also less people are actually talking, apps like WhatsApp etc are replacing voice calls.

[nowster]

As someone said to me over ten years ago, "Voice is just another application."

[Technical Ben]

Then they noticed they can packet inspect, and they decided that "not all applications are equal". (At least for those companies banning/blocking whatsApp/skype etc)

[Gary]

Then they noticed they can packet inspect, and they decided that "not all applications are equal". (At least for those companies banning/blocking whatsApp/skype etc)

I think most Mobile networks allow those apps now, I can facetime over 3G (when I can get 3G) on the iPhone and it hardly uses any data, which is odd as I expected it to hammer it. I think most companies realise banning people using those apps meant loosing customers to networks that would allow them.

[Technical Ben]

I think some companies (read most, as they get lot's of monopolies over there), do still block any competing network traffic, based on IP/or protocol etc. Which is really underhanded.