Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 01:01:32AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:
They went the way of all private companies. Sold. That's one reason why I feel it's better to deal with common ownership ("asset-locked") cooperatives if you can - at least if they disappear, it's usually into another cooperative. [...]
I'm not interested in what their underlying network is or who runs it, that's their choice. The simple fact is that they are re-selling the same services that were available nearly 10 years ago with no innovation or investment by the sounds of things (and to make it worse, surely if they are dealing with reselling a private companies products then you are no better off than dealing with the private company directly?).
No, it's the members' choice collectively, the innovation has included the co-op's campaigning for access to networks, investments have been made in a wide range of things and you are better off dealing with the co-op because our own support staff have as much access as the private companies' support staff and (IMO) are generally more expert and friendly instead of reading from a script, there's some strength in numbers and you can switch backend supplier (say if BT are failing as they sometimes do) without switching away from the co-op.
Regards,