On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Philip D'Ath wrote:
Telecom has recently been reported in the media as saying it is seriously looking at and now supports the concept of local internet interconnection. Rumours abound of a June/July timetable. Of course for their customers, and TelstraClear's, one would expect they never stopped local interconnection, but this move would re-integrate Telecom with the rest of the internet at a local level.
Ah, yes, but will it be neutral peering? Or will their marketroids lead the charge yet again with the concept of charge-by-the-byte peering - followed, yet again, by an unequivocal middle-finger salute from the wider 'net community? Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but it's a bit hard to swallow that everyone's favourite monopolist telco has suddenly turned over a new leaf on the topic of how it connects to the rest of the country. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."