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Six weeks ago we made a submission to OFTEL on its consultation document describing BT's proposals for unmetered telephone modem and ISDN access for schools and 'designated institutions'. In summary, we said that the proposed rates were too expensive: BT should concentrate on affordable universal unmetered tariffs rather than devising yet more tariff structures for yet more subdivisions of BT subscribers. Since then the screw has been tightened by two further announcements:
We believe that, for BT to retain any credibility, all its proposed unmetered tariffs, including Surftime which teachers and pupils will benefit from at home, must be replaced by a single unlimited unmetered rate at or close to that offered by Telewest. Had we known at the time of the astonishingly small budgets some primary schools have for IT (we've been quoted figures down to £600 per year) we would have made our points about coss even more strongly in responding to the consultation paper. That £600 would be swallowed up completely by connectivity at the proposed BT rates.
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