What will really bake your noodle is during the flat rate period, how
they managed to supply gigs of traffic a month for only $20. This would
lead you to believe that Telecom must reimburse the ISP for the traffic.

What I think a good plan to be, and I spose it's already been prohibited
by Telecom is as follows:

Currently I would surmise the ISP's say to Telecom how much they are
paid per megabyte. Telecom then charge you $0.20 per megabyte.

What I think should happen, is the ISP charge $0.15 per megabyte,
telecom charge you $0.20 and the ISP reimburses you say $0.10 per meg,
so it's costing you ten cents for traffic and the ISP gets 5 cents per
meg which I would hope covers their costs.

Pete wrote:
>
> >If you do a traceroute from your machine to somewhere overseas, you'll
> >find it will go via the ISP and not Telecom.
>
> Hmmm - OK, I stand corrected.
>
> I remember someone posting last month saying something along the lines that
> Paradise.NET choose not to get their DSL international bandiwdth from Telecom,
> but it was an option. I may be wrong here again.
>
> I just can't understand how an ISP like Paradise.NET can make money on DSL users
> (eg residental) that go through man GB a month for only $20!
>
> Pete
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