Saturday - March 20, 2010

AN OBSTACLE TO BROADBAND …. yeah, might be but the scene is lots prettier.

I would love to live in a setting like this one. Of course, there are also a thousand other beautiful settings in this very beautiful country that the socialists are in a hurry to give away. Curses on em!  But then come to think of it, it’s doubtful we’d afford a setting like this.  This island has to import almost everything, and that costs. Which naturally pushes up the cost of living here.  But then, it’s understandable cos someone has to pay for the illegals who then must be put up in homes and with furnishings they’ve never been accustomed to before coming here.  So ppl in settings like this have to fund it all.

What the heck, this is a pretty scene.  Almost looks like a painting.

Canal that opened great age of waterways ‘an obstacle’ to broadband

A canal that opened the great age of British waterways is now just an ‘’obstacle’’ blocking the path of modern electronic communications, a High Court judge said.

Mr Justice Lewison had been asked to decide whether the company wanting to lay a fibre optic cable under the canal should have to pay rent to the owner of the waterway.

His ruling began: ‘’The Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761 and engineered by Joseph Brindley, ushered in the great age of the canals.

‘’It was built to give citizens of the growing city of Manchester access to cheaper coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal mines.

‘’Now, however, what the citizens of Manchester want is access to broadband and fibre optic cables.

‘’Far from facilitating access, the Bridgewater Canal is now an obstacle.’’

He said Geo Networks already had a duct under the canal for which it paid a rent to the Bridgewater Canal Company.

Lawyers for the fibre optic company argued it only had to pay for the right to lay the extra cable. Under the electronic communication industry code, it could ‘’buy one get one free’’ and did not have to pay extra rent.

Mr Justice Lewison ruled that Geo should pay more, but gave permission to appeal to try to clarify the industry code.

‘’It does not seem to me to be fair that an operator should have something for nothing.’’

He said David Elvin QC, representing Geo, had warned him against allowing those in control of ‘’linear obstacles’’ extracting ransom payments.

The judge said the expression ‘’fair and reasonable’’ in the code meant ransom payments could not be demanded.

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Posted by peiper     on 03/20/2010 at 01:03 PM   
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