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Re: Planned Outages

From: Jared Yates <jared.yates_at_peace.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 14:12:41 +1200
Message-ID: <3BB92299.C28681B3@peace.com>

*WARNING* this email contains sarcasm and cheap shots at telecom... it
should not be taken seriously... (or forwarded to the telecom secret
police :)

> >SHDSL has a place but may be not in the 'Jetstream' type
> >environment.
>
> No, definately not Jetstream, after all paying for phone calls by the
> megabyte would get a few subscribers scratching their heads when they got
> the phone bill.

would you pay for crank calls? or what about telemarketers??? could you
firewall your phone to prevent people you dont like ringing you up?? :)
 
> The concept of a single line card at the exchange that supports E1, ISDN,
> POTs et. al. and a CPE device that just negotiates these services must have
> Telecom scratching their heads.
>
> No more jumpering at the exchange, no more site visits to install additional
> lines "Just click here for 3 PABX trunks and an E1", all over a single
> copper pair.

i bet you'd still pay like $150+ for an "Installation Fee" :/
 
> Or is this just more marketing hype?
>
> Cheers
>
> BG.

Cheers,
Jared

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