On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
This is great and fantastic for Telecom. It does nothing to promote choice for the end-user, and experience clearly shows where there is a lack of choice, there is lack of service.
So Telecom get to provide not much service, and charge whatever-they-feel-like for it. Indeed great for Telecom. Why else do you think they're doing it? It's _their job_ to maximise return for shareholders. Acting in any other way leaves Telecom management without performance-related bonuses at best, possibly unemployed, and at worst being sued by shareholders. :) One doesn't criticise a shark for being a shark, and one can't really criticise a public company for acting like one. If you don't like it, treat it as damage and route around it. :) Or else get your government to change things. Dissing Telecom (while fun) is pointless. JSR -- John S Russell | Smile Chief Engineer - R&D | Nod Attica/Callplus NZ | Build it. - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog