<super rant>
I'm sorry, is it just me, or is this just yet another example of Telecom
taking advantage of it's monopolistic situation?

1. Telecom (errrr... Sorry, Xtra, that completely independent business
unit that is supposed to be on the same playing field as all the other
ISPs....) know what they're about to provide to ISP's, in terms of
wholesale, so announce plans to the public, before they make the
wholesale available to ISPs. Thus being able to get market share early,
then relying on the churn fee to stop users from switching to
cheaper/sensible/quality plans from other ISPs, when Telecom finally
allows the ISPs to offer competing products.

2. Telecom finalize the UBS specification (note: I'm just reading this
from the Orcon article mentioned, so you'll have to take their word, not
mine) for ISPs. An ISP (Orcon) announces a plan, based on that
specification that, oh, woops, blows Telecom's (err... Xtra's...) plans
out of the water. Telecom suddenly realises that the competing ISP has
managed to beat them using their (Telecom's) own wholesale service...
So back-peddles, reneges on the finalised specification and changes it
to take away the key selling points of the competing ISPs plans, thus
attempting to render them the same as Telecom (err... Xtra's...) plans
[doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of wholesale? If Telecom
restricts what people can do, how are ISP's supposed to differentiate
their plans?]

More power to Orcon for taking it on the chin and honouring their plans,
unlike Telecom.

</super rant>

Later'ish
Craig
My views and opinions are just that, mine, and certainly don't represent
my employer, who loves Telecom and will go a long way to keep them
happy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org
> [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On Behalf Of Mark Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 10:30 PM
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Subject: Modifications to UBS
>
> 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.
>
> I certainly don't think the commerce commission had this in mind.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
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