[44368] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT monopoly causes widespread network failure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Giles Heron)
Wed Nov 21 14:54:16 2001
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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:50:56 +0000
From: Giles Heron <giles@packetexchange.net>
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To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
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Juha Saarinen <Juha@saarinen.org>
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"Sean M. Doran" wrote:
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> Sean Donelan writes:
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> | The joy of single provider service.
>
> No, you mean: the joy of a rapacious monopoly with a spineless regulator.
[snip]
could be worse, we could have an (even more) incompetent rapacious
monopoly and *no* regulator.
The situation in New Zealand is as follows:
ADSL users can pay as much as $NZ199 a month (about $80) for an ASDL
connection. After the first 1.5GB of data they then pay an additional
18c per MB!
If they have a static IP address they can also expect several
"micro-outages" per hour because Telecom NZ are using RIP and don't
appear to know how to configure it.
http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/81476e1c0cf66ad0cc256896007c00e7/07df662a6b4a3669cc256ae700756a8e!OpenDocument
http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/2F7C0A112F35370ECC256B0800747B0F!opendocument
(apologies for the absurdly long links.)
Giles
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