And AT&T Co is offering bulk discounts for high-volume users of its inter-city digital leased lines, which range from 6% for people who commit to a mimimum $25,000 a month over a year, to a full 40% for those who expect they’ll spend $1m or more a month over five years. No doubt realising that the present government’s somethingfornothing privatisation offers mean that it has got to come up with an equally attractive giveaway, the UK Labour Party is proposing to wire the UK with fibre optic television cables, and putting a free computer terminal into every home, office, shop, school and factory at a cost, some say, of UKP20,000m: chance would be a fine thing, say the psephologists.
