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Re: BT monopoly causes widespread network failure
- From: Giles Heron
- Date: Wed Nov 21 14:59:37 2001
"Sean M. Doran" wrote:
>
> Sean Donelan writes:
>
> | 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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