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Re: JSPP withdrawal - was 128Kb/s Upstream Throttles 2Mb/s downstream

From: Juha Saarinen <juha_at_saarinen.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:01:32 +1300
Message-ID: <435D59BC.4050504@saarinen.org>

Brian Gibbons wrote:
> There has been zero media coverage (that's you Paul/Juha)

Not correct...

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/26B488C5339BD641CC256F2D000D1E04

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/DD8302743B8DAA23CC256F9D0083BE52

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/FC044627C4B98D49CC256FF4003F36A4

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/UNID/CEC4572801B1A40DCC25705000206F0C

> There have been no media releases from Telecom (that I have seen).
> http://www.telecom-media.co.nz/releases.asp

Not there, but Telecom sent these two to ISPs:

http://www.telecom.co.nz/binarys/ws_2004_07_26b.pdf

http://www.telecom.co.nz/binarys/ws-2005-04-14.pdf

So the death of JSPP has been signalled for quite a while. I'm not
saying Telecom's doing the right thing here however.

> So convincing a Jetstream user that they have to "do something" (like change
> to a service that is slower, and pay the ISP for that service instead of
> Telecom) is a good way of losing the trust of your clients.

Yes... or, you could tell them to go to Xtra of course, because they do
have a "choice". Ha.

-- 
Juha
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