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Originally Posted by asdf
I didn't think Ionica was that big in MK?
Anyways, I imagine this is going much better than the London trial already as the london trial didn't even have a payment invovled, did it? Pure free?
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As I recall Milton Keynes was the pimary test bed for Ionicas wireless telphony service. When Ionica went bust it led to many disgruntled rediential customers (my brother was one of them). In the deal cut by Oftel with BT to pick up the pieces of this failure all of the Inoica number ranges (that had been given to residental customers) were returned to BT. I know my brother lost a number that he was very attached too during this process. As I say I suspect that many Milton Keynes residents remeber the fiasco with Ionica and will remain cautious about future wireless systems, having been burnt once.
I do not think the London Trial was free, but then I do not know if they ever actualy got any rediential customer using the system. As I say I was on the third floor in West Ealing with one of the best views of the surrounding area (and where I understood the NTL base satation was) and yet was deemed to not be able to get a stong enough signal to allow service.
Let's hope the MK trial is more sucsessful.