On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:11:24 +1300, Craig Spiers wrote
> No, he rang telstra asking for a 'domestic only' service - delivered
> over dsl.. In other words, he wanted national only data, no
> international.

again... INCORRECT!

I actually rang Telstra, asked to speak to someone in sales with a technical
understanding of Telstra's profit offering.

I was transfered fairly promptly (professionally, not rudly) to a person in
tech support, I spent 30 to 45 minutes talking about the different products
Telstra could offer me and was then transfered back to sales to confirm
pricing and avaliability.

> I too would have declined him of this service.. No point in
> providing ~8Mbit of national data (which would unnessacarily hammer
> the delivery method) when you can provide to 20-30 256k users - who
> purchase a retail product!

In Australia Telstra normally use a ratio of 300:1 for dsl so at 256k 8mbit
would service a few more than 20-30 users.

With data limits/caps and then a charge per mb for data giving users the
maximum speed possible actually makes good business sense as long as you have
the back haul in place to meet peak traffic times. (which Telstra Clear
should have). - If you disagree then I'm open to hearing your reasoning why.

Cheers DiG

 
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> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org]
> On Behalf Of list0570@paradise.net.nz Sent: Saturday, 13 December
> 2003 3:52 p.m. To: ADSL List Subject: Re: Telstra ADSL
>
> > They of course don't know what I'm up to so don't perceive any reason
> > to bend over backwards like Telecom did for your tolls business.
>
> Telecom bending over backwards for home customers? Really?
>
> I really don't understand your issue with Telstra. You rang them up saying
> you wanted a telephone and broadband? Are you a business? Do they
> know that? There's one bit of info you haven't given us yet.
>
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