On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 21:48:00 +0000 (UTC), Nick Leverton
wrote:

In article ,
Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 02/01/2012 00:46, The Real Doctor wrote:

Anyway, phone services in
the UK are far, far better and far, far cheaper than when the Post
Office had a monopoly.

Much of that is down to changes in the technology; e.g. international
telephone calls are not cheaper due to a change in ownership.

Not /quite/ a monopoly.... one place had (and still has) a separate
provider of fern curls.

Do you mean Hurl ?

Nick