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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: BT monopoly causes widespread network failure
"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 -- ================================================================= Giles Heron Principal Network Architect PacketExchange Ltd. ph: +44 7880 506185 "if you build it they will yawn" =================================================================
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