On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:45:32PM +1000, Dean Pemberton wrote:
A quick check of our calls database here tends to indicate telecom are making truck loads of money because many business are calling up and using the 'net, 8 hours a day - which means telecom bills them an additional $400/month (5c/minute, 8 hours a day, 20 days a month). Sure, as far as residential calls go, they loose out, but on the whole I think they win, since they don't make that much off residential calls anyhow. A long time ago, someone advocated everyone putting ACLs on their routers to lock out Xtra, which seemed really drastic and excessive at the time, because there we other avenues to try first. Since then, much has transpired, the Commerce Commission won't and probably can't do anything (our laws are inadequate) and Maurice Williamson has become the minister of sitting on his arse looking stupid, or perhaps he just owns lots of telecom stock. I won;t start with the LTSA or any of the hundreds of other grievances people have. I'm sure I'm not the only one who now wonders just how refusing to co-operate with Xtra would worked out... -cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog