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michael.wines@purethought.com.au (Michael Wines) wrote:

>gkalouts@qnpbnes2.telecom.com.au (Gregory Peter Kaloutsis) wrote:

>>Now I have no problems being charged $0.xx for a local call. But I do object to
>>paying the same amount when the business man uses; potentially,  bandwidth I
>>would use. So you have a situation where people think that a local call is
>>simply a local call and nothing else.

>>Look at like this. Why should a truck pay more for rego than a sedan. And why
>>should a bike pay even less than a sedan! If all three travel the same distance
>>why the difference. Simply because one uses the infrastructure more than the
>>other. The truck wears the roads more and hence pays more etc.

>Bad analogy. Trucks tear up roads. Modems don't tear up telephone
>lines just by being connected longer.
It's not what you connect to a POTS line but rather the time that uses. In
switched network time is bandwidth.

>>Now in telephony we tend to think in terms of distance only. The longer your
>>destination is the more you pay, but telecommunications infrastructure is not
>>just distance based. It is also bandwidth based. Bandwidth is related to time
>>when it comes to sigle space division usage. ie the line from phone to the
>>exchange is mine to use when I like and for how long I like. No one else can
>>use that( with the exception of RIM's) line. But the IEN is different. I should
>>have just as much right to use these line as any one else paying the same for a
>>local call!

>This is typical of Telstra's arguments that there is a shortage of
>bandwidth, and that scarcity requires rationing. There is no bandwidth
>shortage. Telstra's artifically managed shortages are just a
>confidence trick to keep prices up so that they can stay fat and lazy.
With going too deeply into capacity planning of a network the simple fact is
that if 1 in 10 households in our major cities decided to use their telephones
for 3 hours plus from say 6 to 9 pm. You better believe that their will be a
bandwidth sortage. This is what their trying to avoid. 

That's my point. Why should Telstra increase their bandwidth (CO$T). Therefore
increase theri charges to everyone to cover the expense when its only the long
held telephone callers that are causing it.
>Michael Wines.
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