On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ewen McNeill wrote:
FWIW, I'm inclined to agree (that it's bullshit). The JCM (and similar systems which have been in use in New Zealand for a long time) are attempts to limit demand to a level where the supply can be made at a similar cost to what is being paid. So that increases in bandwidth required to supply the demand can be met out of revenue.
Thanks for confirming that. The only affordable Jetstream plans are the 400 and 600MB ones. Telecom's IP.net network seems to chug along at approx. 3.5Mbps or ~420KBps for Jetstream users. I'll leave you to do the maths, but suffice to say, filling up your monthly quota doesn't take long, and after that, you'll suffer sudden wallet haemorrhage. Ergo, there's no point whatsoever for anyone to buy Jetstream. You can't use it, plain and simple.
From my point of view bandwidth is very cheap now. Of course this is coming from first connecting to the Internet when we were being charged around $600/MB ($0.60 per kilobyte) for (international) traffic. Now I'm paying, what, about $0.20 per megabyte (less in some instances) for international traffic.
That's about 1/3000th of the cost a bit of 10 years ago (about 13 years ago now IIRC).
Lots of things cost more back in the Dark Ages. I daresay that there were fewer Internet users back then, and a dearth of international connections. This is not the case now, so your comparison isn't valid. Compare current NZ pricing (and purchase parity) with other countries instead. -- 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