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The problem is, BT are a private company that exists to make a profit, now if profit margins are too small,then less funds are brought forward to upgrade the network ect....BT need money to pay for upgrades and repairs whilst the other ADSL providers just piggyback BT.

Now if BT was still publicly owned or a complete monopoly with no competition around, BT would be able to offer much more at lower costs as they would have enough funds to do so. The increase of competitors has grabbed most of BT's customers over the years meaning less funds.

Now that is one reason why they offloaded Cellnet,Genie and BT Paging because it had a financial problem back then.

Now in Germany, Deutsche Telekom is partly publicly owned and is near enough still a monopoly, they don't make it easy for its competitors to use its network like BT, they have a better ADSL service over there and have a full converged telecoms service including there own mobile network as everyone knows as T-Mobile.