You also have to consider what is an anomaly.

When JetStream was introduced it was designed as a high
speed replacement for dialup, including the ISP selection
option. At that stage all bandwidth was managed by the ISP
but subsidised by Telecom (who collected usage).

Paradise introduced national/international charging
(probably the second company in the world to do this after
finland). This was very unusual but a service differentiator.

JetStream Starter was introduced both to increase user
numbers for Telecom, but also under pressure from ISPS who
wanted to manage usage. The reason that usage restrictions
have come into place on JetStream Starter is that ISPs
realised how impractical flat rate was (Paradise understood
from day one). Most still work on the principle that the
high-users are subsidised by the low-users.

As JetStream billing is done by PPP session it is impossible
for Telecom to differentiate national vs international. They
need to rebuild their network to do this. You may argue this
is a design flaw but in 1998 (when JetStream was designed)
the only model was dialup and nat/internat was unknown.

They are unlikely to rebuild their network without
increasing their revenue (and most people want nat/internat
to get cheaper service!) so this probably fits into the
'get over it' bucket for now.

regards,

Peter
>
> From: Sascha Beaumont <sascha@squiggle.gen.nz>
> Date: 2002/08/10 Sat PM 05:36:10 GMT+12:00
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Subject: Re: JetStream pricing for national versus international traffic
>
> > So how can we
> > bring pressure to bear on Telecom to correct this glaring anomaly and
> > differentiate between national and international traffic in their pricing
> > model for full rate JetStream customers?
>
> We cant. And we wont. Unfortunately.
>
> I dont even know if telecoms network would sustain the load that would
> be put on it by such a change. The other problem when people have such
> low download limits of 1Gb if they hit on a .nz site to download
> something and that .nz site is hosted overseas, they will complain to
> telecom yet it is entirely their fault.
>
> I can't even imagine the skyrockting usage of p2p.net.nz if you could
> have affordable/cheap/'free' full rate transfers around new zealand.
>
> Compared to the other options available for 2Mbit+ connections in NZ
> Jetstream is very reasonably priced. Telstra Clear offer broadband
> connections, 2Mbit (256k up) cable access or Tempest 2Mbit burstable
> connection.(delivered via wireless, dsl, whatever depending on your
> exact needs.) TelstraClear with paradise are the only one of the low
> cost providers that differentiate between national and international
> traffic... and by capping upstream to 256k they limit the possible
> damage to their network by bandwidth hogging users and their peer to
> peer filesharing.
>
> JetStream Home1000 - $89
> Paradise Broadband Max 2mbps - $93 + $17 modem rental = $110
> Tempest1000 - $199 + $50 router rental = $250
>
> There is no incentive for Telecom to change their pricing model. We only
> saw datacaps introduced to the 128k Jetstream Starter connection by ISPs
> after the problems introduced by p2p filesharing.. a gigabyte a day in
> the extreme curcumstances... imagine if that were to become a gigabyte
> an hour because you could get unmetered full rate local data transfers.
>
> Bandwidth in NZ is expensive, Jetstream provides affordable connections
> to home users and business who want to download that 5Mb email
> attachment now, who dont want to wait for that webpage to load. If the
> system is open to abuse, that abuse will happen. Anyone disagree?
>
> Sascha
>
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