Hear, hear. That's exactly how it will be done; the devices will be introduced first voluntarily ("fit one of these and get cheaper car insurance!"). Then they will be made compulsory, with the usual bleating of "what about the chilllldreen?". These will be accompanied by the usual misrepresentation of the accident statistics by the anti-mobility lobby. OK, we may not see *this* technology implemented, but something similar is going to happen, and this is how it will be done. UK drivers, join the Association of British Drivers (which I do not speak for, but am a member of.)
In the UK, as well as the ANSI ("scrolling") BBSs, there was the Viewdata system. BT ran a national Viewdata BBS system called Micronet, with local rate access for most people. Micronet had a subscription charge; many local BBSs also existed, and didn't charge (or charged less). A few of them survive - see CCl4.
This simply is not true. If you ask OFTEL - or check in deja for what their representative has said in uk.telecom - OFTEL has no objection to BT offering unmetered calls.
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Hear, hear. That's exactly how it will be done; the devices will be introduced first voluntarily ("fit one of these and get cheaper car insurance!"). Then they will be made compulsory, with the usual bleating of "what about the chilllldreen?".
These will be accompanied by the usual misrepresentation of the accident statistics by the anti-mobility lobby. OK, we may not see *this* technology implemented, but something similar is going to happen, and this is how it will be done.
UK drivers, join the Association of British Drivers (which I do not speak for, but am a member of.)
In the UK, as well as the ANSI ("scrolling") BBSs, there was the Viewdata system. BT ran a national Viewdata BBS system called Micronet, with local rate access for most people. Micronet had a subscription charge; many local BBSs also existed, and didn't charge (or charged less). A few of them survive - see CCl4.
This simply is not true. If you ask OFTEL - or check in deja for what their representative has said in uk.telecom - OFTEL has no objection to BT offering unmetered calls.