>From: "Neil Gardner" <neil@neilnz.com>
>If the Govt follows the recommendations in 'the report', does
>this mean that an ISP (not Xtra) will be able to supply all
>bandwidth to users themselves.

>From: "Lance Woollett" <lancewlt@xtra.co.nz>
>read this for what it could mean...
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/338BD3205B4D8ADACC256E16000E0713?OpenDocument

"Currently Telecom only has to offer the other ISPs and telcos a retail
service at wholesale rates."

"Telecom decides what the service standards are for the product and the ISPs
can only resell that service."

Those statements may be true in theory but AFAIK there are no DSL related
services being resold by any ISP/telco in NZ.

A few months ago TelstraClear announced that they will be reselling
Jetstream but presumably only when bundled with other services (e.g. phone
trunks).

The basic issue is that currently DSL is an "add on" service associated with
a truck and the billing of DSL must go with the billing of the trunk,
therefore Telecom do not wholesale DSL as a separate service.

My definition of a DSL bitstream service would be a Layer 2 connectivity to
the customer DSL device that is billed to the ISP by Telecom. The ISP then
bills the end user for DSL and Internet access services.

It remains to be seen how Telecom/Govt will define "Bitstream service" if
the Govt pushes through the Commerce Commission's recommendation.

Cheers

BG

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