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From: Paul Reynolds <paulr_at_mcgovern.co.nz>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:16:11 +1200
Message-Id: <4.1.19990614141556.00b8e870@pop.iprolink.co.nz>

This came off a UK mailing list . It's one guys view ( hence the jokes ) but he is usually pretty accurate ..
However, if he is right - "all you will have all you can eat Internet on ADSL from BT for about NZ$90 dollars "- it's going to be very big bickies indeed.

best paul

SNIPPED ...

http://www.ntk.net/

> >> HARD NEWS <<
> petit coups
>
> In a post-Net Strike parliamentary debate on unmetered
> telecoms, Ian Bruce MP rather smugly declared that certain
> telecommunications companies had confided in his very
> important ear that they were going to go unmetered in a
> matter of weeks. Who could he mean? Well, fortunately we've
> been in the position of having somebody swear us to secrecy
> about this every twelve minutes for the last fortnight. And,
> on the assumption that once an MP realises something, it
> must be inches away from blindingly obvious, we might as well
> blab. So, big secret: it's BT, it's ADSL, it's coming in
> September, it's unmetered, it's always on and it'll cost
> c.30UKP a month. More predictions: they won't have enough
> installers so you'll have to wait ages, journalists will
> write scary articles about "portscanners", even more
> pisspoor TV people will enter the industry hoping to present
> "high-bandwidth video documentaries" online, the newsgroups
> will fill with people whinging that they only get 300Kb/s
> and want their money back. But none of us will care,
> because, you who want this *so* badly and have prayed for
> so long, you will be happy.
> http://www.unmetered.org.uk/news/news100699.htm
> - "someone leaked it, I'm afraid. Cancel the whole thing.."
> http://www.elite.dircon.co.uk/ADSL/
> - gurus will be amazed that this isn't in full motion video
>

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