On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:57:39AM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
JCM was devised as a method of limiting broadband service uptake amongst businesses and consumers, and to encourage the darkening of fibre in and out of New Zealand.
Works extremely well.
Until I see proof of this, I'm going to call BULLSHIT.
Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm far from the TCNZ supporter, but I have worked on both sides of the fence, as both a bandwidth consumer and a supplier, and I have been privy to the financial aspects of buying and selling bandwidth from both perspectives.
I'm not saying bandwidth is free but 15cents per megabyte for National and Internation is a bit steep. Even if it's 100% International it implies a per Megabyte cost of around $48,000 per month (which I hope is more than most people are paying). Why not charge a flat rate for the link/user and let the ISP traffic shape/charge the customers, this works okay for jetstart? If you compare the current jetstart/jetstream pricing then they are way out of whack. AFAIK the extra money customers pay for Jetstream doesn't buy them anything except removal of the cap and the ability to do static ips, all the extra money they now pay goes to telecom rather than the ISP. -- Simon Lyall. | Newsmaster | Work: simon.lyall(a)ihug.co.nz Senior Network/System Admin | Postmaster | Home: simon(a)darkmere.gen.nz ihug, Auckland, NZ | Asst Doorman | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog