my 2cents on charging (from a longtime cynic)

  They made the figure up..... then used whatever figures they could find
that would justify their postion. SOP Standard Office Politics

  Telecom have been grossly overcharging commercial data lines for years
and knows it.
  
  ADSL threatens this.... and therefore its cost must be high.
  
  To much of Telecoms profit and internal business structures are
dependant on maintaining the cost structure for existing/old technologies.
There are credibility and change control issues which have nothing to do
with providing ADSL infrastructure.

  I don't believe the needs of residential customers are given much wieght
when it comes to pricing decisions. Corporate politics is the name of the
game... we are making money here.... "this is a business"

  The ATM backbone that someone mentioned existed before ADSL and
should only generate a very small charge on ADSL provisioning

  In my opinion they don't really know what they are doing.... I don't mean
technically.... I think that eventually any solution can be made to work at a
technical level which is why I don't have much time for "technical limitation"
as an argument for not providing a level of service. Who ever is running this
appears to have little vision of what its all going to look like beyond "We are
going to be in charge" My guess is most of "marketing dudes" that appear
to be running this them probably have only rudimentry knowlege of the
internet and have never been a power user of anything other than the
wordprocessor they used to polish their CV. (Hmmm... OK.... thats a bit
harsh but you know what I mean). They may have some statistics based
concept of how modem users behave thru their XTRA experiences but that
aint giving them a clue as to want those users are going to want to do on a
broadband network.
   
   Remember they were going to stream Video on Demand over this ADSL
  
   At 35 cents a megabyte?

   I wonder how many of us were XTRA customers before ADSL... not me
and not many of you I'd guess?

    my fingers are cold

     :)
     

     Bring back the PO....
                  (at least then we could push for a commission of inquiry :)

     any word on Saturn?
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            Harold Jarvie
              Wellington
             New Zealand
         hjarvie@bigfoot.com
    http://bigfoot.com/~hjarvie
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