[82928] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tiscali switches to Public-Root?? What do you think?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen J. Wilcox)
Mon Aug 1 06:35:00 2005
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:33:34 +0100 (BST)
From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
"John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <nanog@adns.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87ll3mxgfj.fsf@obelix.mork.no>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Bj=F8rn Mork wrote:
> The poor guy/gal at the other end of the line will need a really good
> answer. Does anyone here have one?
to avoid being technical i guess the only answer would be to say this is a=
=20
private service offered to tiscali users and is not available to any non ti=
scali=20
users (you might want to point out this is 99.9% of the world in case $cust=
=20
feels like switching)
> Not to mention the answers we need for the market droids...
>=20
> "Hey, I heard that Tiscali is offering more Internet than us at no
> extra cost, and they make a lot of money on it too. How soon can we
> start doing the same?"
tell them you've been able to do it all along, its your network and you can=
=20
provide any unique content that you like, providing they understand this is=
=20
unique for your custs only .. think intranet
> This puts a lot of pressure on other European ISPs, and eventually also N=
orth
> American ISPs (to make this on-topic :-) I hope the rest of us can stand
> together against it. A good start would be to come up with a common resp=
onse
> to the two pressure groups outlined above.
a better worded explanation on a webpage would be good i guess...
anyway, i'm off the the UNIDT website, i hear '.tiscali' hasnt been registe=
red=20
yet ;p
Steve
