At 10:30 p.m. 11/08/2004, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I don't know who is aware of this and whether there is any truth to the statement but you may want to read this:
>
>http://www.orcon.net.nz/company/press/54318/
>
>Secondly can someone clarify to me how UBS works?
>
>As far as I'm aware the IP Space is managed by the ISP (ie their own IPS) and the bandwidth is the ISP's own bandwidth. Yet they seem to be able to control all the immediate things to do with UBS.

But you're still using part of Telecom's network so I'm sure they're going to claim it costs them so much money to provide bandwidth from the DSLAM to the ISPs line. And as for static IPs? Well that would allow people to run servers and we couldn't have that could we?

>I certainly don't think the commerce commission had this in mind.

Nor do I.....

<RANT>
I suppose Telecom realised they won't be able to rip us off any more if they let ISPs do what they want...
<END RANT (well kind of)>

I could go on but suffice to say I find this a jerk off, although not surprising given this is Telecom we're talking about here. It does show Telecom is never likely to change although IMHO Telecom are shooting themselves in the foot. With the proposal as it stood, and the claim they were going to launch 512k next year, a lot of people (although not me), including the CC I'm sure, were starting to think the CC made the right decision. And people were starting to feel better about Telecom. Yes people were annoyed at the churn fee but other then that, everyone was happy. To change it now, a few weeks later, especially that it's after Orcon had advertised their planned product in the paper is going to be very unpopular. Who knows, they might be force into an embrassing backdown but even if not, they would not be popular. At least if they had always announced and planned this, people's opinions probably wouldn't have gotten that much worse

However it does prove what I said about advertising too early is a risky decision. Although I suspect everyone (perhaps even Orcon?) but Telecom are glad they did since it's going to ensure good publicity...

P.S. Ironically, I just signed up with Orcon on the 10th!

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