On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Steve Martin wrote:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/356B8A20E567C86DCC256EED00750BAB
"Gerard Linstrom from Telecom Wholesale Services says the UBS was designed with the Jetstream Surf 1GB retail plan as the reference." Why was this plan chosen as the reference? Given the uptake on these plans has been so poor, why use it as a baseline? I am unsure about Telecom, but I think the rest of us would like to actually sell into this market, please. "Asked if static IP addresses will be allowed for UBS, Linstrom says ... [Stuff about Telecoms Retail offering deleted] ... The business JetStream services are sold without a static IP address, but one can be purchased as an optional extra at retail. It is likely that ISPs will do something similar with any business offer they construct using UBS.." So .. "Yes." then. Good. "The limit is an aggregate of 10GB per month, multiplied by customer numbers." Disclaimer: The following math will be done in my head, so may be wrong. 10GB/month? That's roughly 340MB/day (for 30 days). Which is 14MB/hour. Or 242Kbytes/min. Or 4Kbytes/second. Or, if you like, slower than dialup speeds. What a fine wholesale "broadband" offering this is. And to think, we nearly went down that whole unbundling road! Forward, New Zealand! Excelsior! JSR -- John S Russell | Big Geek | Doing geek stuff.