On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 20:58:43 +1300, Jonathan Dean wrote
I believe that if high speed internet is available, the national traffic will be the most important.
Ok, why?
A major factor why 80% of calls are local is that 80% of calls are free.
I doubt that's correct. In AU I had national free time for 20 minutes after 8pm each day. Most of my calls were still local becuase most of the people I wanted to call were local. You also pay for every local call there and still most calls I made were local. Family and firends are normally local aren't they? Services I used all the time were also local - pizza :) mmmm :)
Of course most people don't send 10.5GB files overseas - because on DSL they would be bankrupted. Do Citylink users have the ability to send 10.5GB offshore if they want too - without paying international tariffs?
Can you get fixed pipe data here rather than paying by the mg like you can over seas?
Ultimately, I just want all the schools in New Zealand to be able to actually communicate with each other using high speed networking. It seems to me that government will ensure that every school has access to high speed internet (DSL etc.) but none of them will ever be able to afford to use it.
This is exactly why I suggested linking up home users jetstream accounts using wireless. The national data is free... While we're on that subject, how do I tell what Telecom consider national and what's international? Cheers DiG -- Don Gould The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month! Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your broadband community!