On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
This whole "Jetstream introduces business to broadband" thing is just bogus. We were happily selling 155M circuits to customers at CLEAR five years ago. (We weren't providing 155M internet transit, because even if that capacity was available on PRE, it would have cost us about $155M per year in half-circuit costs, but we're talking about access network speeds here). Citylink have been providing 100M domestic service for ages. The idea that a DSL service is somehow bleeding edge, novel or the only game in town for business broadband internet access is just farcical.
Last time I looked, 85% of New Zealand business fell into the "small" category, ie. under twenty employees. The vast majority of these will not be in areas serviced by Clear or Citylink, only by Telecom Jetstream. Unfortunately, that makes farci out of broadband for most NZ businesses. -- Juha Take off every sig! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog