On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:05:23PM +1300, John Huttley wrote:
>
> > >
> > I've always thought it was fairly clear.
> >
> > What you pay telecom is based on what your phone number is.
> >
> > What you pay your ISP is based on what your login is.
>
> Untrue, since if you login to jetstream games you get free traffic but your phone
> number hasn't
> changed.
>
> Regards
>

I guess I tend to forget about the games context. Even so with jetstream
standard internet traffic has alway been charged based on the port in the
exchange.
The games context merely sitches off the charging for the line whilst
logged in to it. Your ISP never sees anything to do with that transaction
except possibly that you are no longer authinticating against them.

>From what i have seen flash past my eyes on this list wrt the games
context I was under the impression that there was little in the
way of authentication anyway. The differentiation comes in
what is after the @ effectively the bit where telecom routes to
the ISP equivalent.

It is still the case though that telecom does not charge you based on your
login. Rather it is the combination of your line number and context.

--kit

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Received on Thu Mar 1 12:36:49 2001