Many people don’t realise just what it means to move your calls and lines to another provider and are often under the misunderstanding that somehow being with BT gives you some advantage over anyone else. The reality is that in 2005, when Ofcom was tasked with the process of putting together plans for the separation of BT Openreach (who manage the telephone exchanges, cabling and in fact the entire physical connection of your telephone system to the exchange) from the rest of BT, they put in place requirements for ‘Equivelence Of Inputs’ (definition below).