Funny how many people see LLU as the 'light at the end of the tunnel' when in reality it's going to be the same sh*t offered up by someone else. Not only that but it will probably only be in the main centres where the population density makes it financially viable for ISP's / Network Companies < Telecom to invest. Regards Tim Price -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Poole [mailto:matt(a)p00le.net] Sent: Thursday, 21 December 2006 12:19 p.m. To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Connection reliability (was Re: Telstra's Outage) On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, John @ netTRUST wrote:
I think there is a big market need for something that is better then consumer grade ADSL, delivered over copper to be widely available, and cheaper then outdated often unreliable Frame Relay.
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Bring on LLU - 2 to 3 years from now I think we'll be talking about a different landscape.
And there's the rub. currently You have to go through Telecom if you're outside WLG/CHC and want a terrestrial connection to your home. They govern the bottom two layers of the connection absolutely, so even if an ISP wanted to offer a premium service with higher reliability they couldn't do it without laying their own network. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog