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Re: An outsider's biewpoint

From: Juha Saarinen <juha_at_saarinen.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:07:08 +1200
Message-ID: <425DEC6C.8070906@saarinen.org>

Steve Phillips wrote:
> Um..
>
> 256kbps pretty much cleaned out the ISP's, what do you think 8 times
> this speed will do ?

OMG! Are you saying the ISPs don't have any bandwidth to handle 1 and
2MB UBS?

> 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.

Yes, they seem to prefer practising ankle-grabbing so as to be allowed
to leech a margin from Telecom's resale products rather than cooperating
with one another, which is interesting.

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

All we need is FTTP and then we can forget about LLU and telco crapola.

-- 
Juha
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