About the pushiest chap i had was a sales rep for sky, now working for an ISP i know they just hire these guys through agencies but he was supposed to be teaching 4 other young sales bods the ropes.
so he says he's from sky and he'd like to swap me from cable to them. including of course broadband, phone and tv.
"i don't have a bt phone line" i tell him, but undeterred he continues to tell me i don't need one (i guess bt use clairvoyants now for bb) i asked how this was possible, did sky run their own fiber cable now and why didn't i see them digging up the road or is it local loop unbundling from BT (LLU) and have they bought space in the local exchange?
suffice to say his answer was "yes".
not going well for him... "ok" i says "do you know what local loop unbundling is?" at which point he goes red, he's no idea.
he tries a different tac saying that sky can provide all my services cheaper then cable.
"even my 20mb broadband?"
"That too!" he says.
Not so fast pally boy... see my local phone system is actually a boosted ring arrangement, my exchange is 2 miles away and the entirety of the 3 estates in this area all run off this boosted copper ring. which means the fastest broadband in the area will litterally be about 2mb perhaps 3 on a lazy sunday morning if it isn't raining, there's a full moon and the bones land in the right way...
i proceed to tell him so.
at which point he does an about face and drags off the 'noobs'.
for those who don't know LLU (local loop unbundling) is where your ISP buys sections of your phone exchange so they no longer have to pay subs to bt for your custom (makes your bills cheaper) however as its all old pants bt copper networks it doesn't do much for the speed.
i LOVE BT salesmen they're such easy targets...