Simon Lyall wrote:

"The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft report seeking comment on whether internet interconnection arrangements should be subject to a two year period of monitoring..... "

ACCC Commissioner for telecommunications, Mr Ed Willett, said the ACCC remains interested in determining how Internet interconnection arrangements affect end-users and suppliers of telecommunications services. "At the moment there appear to be some anomalies", he said. "For example, if I am connected to a smaller ISP and I send an e-mail to my friend at one of the four larger ISPs, the larger ISP may charge my smaller ISP for sending the e-mail. However, when my friend at the larger ISP sends me a return email, my smaller ISP will have to pay the larger ISP once again. Is that what the ACCC is going monitor for two years? :::boggle::: -- Juha