LEE Tet Yoon wrote:
[snip]
>
> In any case, although my dislike of Telecom and the current situation
> should be fairly well known on this group, I am surprised that no ISP
> has come up with their own Jetstream Plus (or whatever it's called)
> replacement now that it's possible via UBS. After all, it will remove
> the pesky Telecom toll call requirement which is surely an advantage
> for them and surely they'll make more money then they make now from
> the $10 they can charge? I suppose they want to concentrate on their
> 256k plans...? Or maybe they don't want to move their current
> Jetstream Plus/whatever customers due to the big hit their pocket
> will take from the churn fee so they don't dare offer competing 2mbit
> plans.

Um..

256kbps pretty much cleaned out the ISP's, what do you think 8 times
this speed will do ?

suprisingly enough, the extra $10/mo will not actually cover
provisioning the required circuits to support the product.

yada yada ya about lots of customers == lost of $$ == ability to break
even. Someone needs to tell that to Seeby again.

> Having said all that, the situation for ISPs is still not very
> competitive IMHO and never will be with the way the CC and gov have
> handled things.

Actually, this is primarily the ISP's fault, they need to learn to talk
to each other and not backstab each other in order to get some scrapings
from the telco tables. Until this happens there will be no competition
in the market, nothing will change and Telecom will still dominate the
market.

And dont even start on deregulation and LLU, it is a myth that few
realyl understand the implications of.

-- 
Steve.
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