Brilliant argument.

Although you are right. In fact my email contained almost as much
'wrong' statements as the email I was replying to. I wrote it partly as
a stir and partly to highlight the point that so many responses make
assumptions and then quote them as facts.

I remember when this list was created as a positive mechanism for
exchanging ideas, and a lot of this still goes on. However a lot of it
does demonstrate peoples closed minds. Particularly the internet
fanatics. They are great fun to read!

I cannot say why telecom does not charge national and international
usage differently (although I do 'know' that they can't). However neither
does anyone else on this list know why as you can gaurantee that Telecom
has not told them. I laugh at the people stating that it is Telecom simply
abusing its monopoly position. They seem remarkably sure of themselves,
yet you know their evidence is circumstancial at best.

As an example, a simpler explanation might be that Telecom already has
flat rate national IP services, and considers it a bad business to have two
products competing with each other. Maybe some of the people on this
list run their business differently but I know that while I would adjust
prices
to compete with another company, I would not do so to compete with myself.

regards,

P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <steve@focb.iconz.co.nz>
To: "Picanmix" <peterjet@xtra.co.nz>; <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: Re: JetStream pricing for national versus international traffic

> At 23:17 27/08/2002 +1200, Picanmix wrote:
> >Of course this is speculation, and a rather moot point. I can't see why
>
> It's also simply wrong at so many levels.
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> Steve.
>
>

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