The worst case scenario of course is that if both telco's remove the price differential between local and international traffic, what you will find is that all the local hosting will move offshore and there will be no local content any more. Looking at it from our point of view we can get our own box in the US with a 1 Terabyte traffic for US$65/month (and we have one, this is not theoretical) versus thousands/month locally. The end user will end up paying for traffic but since they will be paying the same for local or international they won't care. But the telco's will suddenly find that most of their traffic will become international and their actual cost will go up. This is just short-term thinking by accountants without thinking of the long-term consequences. jfp. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jean-Francois Pirus <jfp(a)clearfield.com> Clearfield Software Ltd Phone (+64-9) 358 2081 4th Floor 8-10 Whitaker Place Fax (+64-9) 358 2083 P O Box 2348 Auckland, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------