24 May
2004
24 May
'04
10:28 a.m.
nope, no distinction was made... Telecom made the same claim to me earlier today as well, although Chris T stresses they haven't made any announcement about switching off peering at this stage. Telecom's argument was this: If you (Customer A) set up a video server in Invercargil (JuhaDownCountry.com) that for whatever reason got a lot of traffic, the telcos would have to install new capacity/servers/gear/etc to cope with the demand and they would need to recoup that cost from you, Customer A. I said but what about Customer B, the end user who is requesting that information - they pay already for that traffic. Yes, yes they do, came the reply. Comments?