But would you want to pay for it? Next you'll be saying that back in England
all was perfect! Nothing is 100% ('cept death and taxes). You lose the phone
once a month - for how long? I have gotten dial tone everytime I lift the
handset for the last 4 years at least (my memory doesn't go back further
though I do remember a time 10 years ago where the cable was dug up and I
had no phone for 6 hrs).

>From: "Steven Ellis" <adsl@stevencherie.net>
>To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>Subject: Re: Dropped Connection
>Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:37:23 +1200
>
>I agree with you comments on the things that cause a loss of service.
>
>My argument it the system should be designed such that there is ALWAYS a
>backup.
>
>Look just how much of NZ has been without power at various times because
>there are no backups.
>
>Services such as power, water and phone should NEVER EVER have any outages.
>
>Sad fact is I get about one a week for power and one a month for phone..
>Well isn't this such a great country.. Ho Hum..
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeremy Brooking" <jeremy@morenet.net.nz>
>To: <adsl@lists.unixathome.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Dropped Connection
>
>
> > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:35, Steven Ellis wrote:
> > > It should be the same for Water and Electric. You don't have any
>choice.
> > > There is one supplier to your house/street/city.
> > >
> > > Even if you switch electric suppliers you still only have one cable.
>That
> > > service should be guaranteed or you should have the option to go
>elsewhere.
> >
> > And when some drunk hits a powerpole? Dont you lose service. Or when
> > council workers dig up waterpipes? Dont you loose service. Some big
> > power cable fails, dont you again loose service? Basically what you are
> > saying, is crap. Those services do have outages, its just they have had
> > their infrastructure in for decades, they have had decades to work out
> > the bugs... of course the service is going to be more stable.
> >
> > You pay peanuts, you get a monkey, its that simple. If you want a SLA
> > with a garenteed 24/7 uptime, you CAN get it, you just have to pay for
> > it.
> >
> > Telecom offer jetwhatever as a 'Best Effort service' Their best effort
> > could be up 1 hour out of each week, but you are still getting what you
> > pay for.
> >
> > Im sure there are numerous companys who could offer you other solutions,
> > but im also sure by your whinging you are not prepared to pay for it.
> >
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