Blair Harrison wrote:
I think everyone is missing the point of what he's trying to say.
The Telecom retail UBS offering is not regulated at all, but rather a commercial offering based on the Commission's reccomendations for a regulated service.
The Regulated UBS currently being negotiated with TelstraClear will have this upstream limitation, but Telecom is not currently bound by any rules to provide only 128k upstream, as I understand things.
Feel free to correct me, but Telecom could provide as much upstream bandwidth as it likes (within the limits of the current ADSL system) to it's customers, it's just choosing to provide the bare minimum in this case, to mirror the regulated service. There may be a number of reasons for this that I'm not privvy to and this is unfortunate, but the Commerce Commission has set the guidelines, so is ultimately responsible. Did they really think Telecom would do more than they absolutely had to ?
All good points Blair, and it will be interesting to see if Telecom will increase the upstream speed on its "commercial UBS proxy service" when the regulated Bitstream comes into play. Then again, with ADSL2(+) being readied, maybe it's just a matter of Telecom holding out for say six to nine months? My understanding is that ADSL2(+) is part of the NGN and thus not subject to regulation. Cheers, -- Juha