There goes the ability to be competitive; if you were to allow the ISP to carry the bandwidth then the ISP can come up with its own traffic caps. I agree that no traffic cap is probably not right, I had a customer new to the InterWeb and he thought by downloading the /pub folder at simtel.com he would get Norton Antivirus. Ironically after about a month and a half of downloading he stopped and found he still didn’t. Seemed he had to pay for it :) When I worked in Australia for Compaq/HP no dialup provider was offering TRUE flat rate, it was all 200hrs - 300hrs, and from memory Ihug was the cheapest over there. Only recently have I seen adverts on Australian TV for Flat rate cable broadband, it is possible it has the same "non true flat rate" component as the dialup. The economies are different I know between the two countries for delivery but no one wants to be that one company to offer true FLAT RATE and then everyone gets poor QOS and run them in to the dirt. Regards Matt Brown -----Original Message----- From: Juha Saarinen [mailto:juha(a)saarinen.org] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:21 PM To: Matthew Brown Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] New Telecom Jetstream Plans Leaked? Matthew Brown wrote:
With the new plans are the ISP providing the Bandwidth to the customer ?
No, ISPs are just reselling Telecom bandwidth, according to what Chris Thompson said in Computerworld. -- Juha --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.580 / Virus Database: 367 - Release Date: 2/6/2004