"To quote my company commander at the time when I arrived in 1975, he said 'if we hadn't have introduced internment three or four years ago Ireckon we'd have gone home a long time ago, '" Mr Mercer said.
Once the last 10 yards of rail road is built, and Ireckon we're looking at 2007, and we can watch our Broadband TV actually on our TV set, then that will be the point when Microsoft and co move from being complementary offers to becoming genuine competitors to Sky, NTL, and Freeview.