"Lüko Willms" wrote in message

Am 04.01.2012 12:26, schrieb Recliner:
Both domestic and international calls from the UK are now more or
less free, but only if you use carriers other than BT. If those
companies were not allowed to function, the price drops would not
have happened.

I think you are distorting the facts:

In reality, if BT was not forced to operate as a profit oriented
commercial company, maintaining its position as the the British
telecoms operator, it would have lowered the prices according to the
technological advances. Deutsche Bundespost did in its times.

When it was state-owned, BT and its predecessors performed much less
well in terms of pricing and efficiency than they did after
privatisation and the introduction of competition. The same is true of
BA.