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

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

>>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.

Your point is the same as mine, that Telstra does network planning in
terms of a static idea of the customers' use of the telecommunications
network. Where we differ is that I can see that telecommunications
requirements are expanding and diversifying, and you can't.

You make the prediction that 10 per cent of households in major cities
will use their residential service for 3 hours during evening peak
Internet/BBS times under the current arrangement. Telstra's response
to this is to introduce financial disincentives to discourage this
use. Instead Telstra should recognise that long-held modem connections
for Internet and BBS access reflect a legitimate use of the service
and should respond by investing in increased capacity at the local
exchanges to handle the increased demand.

Telstra's view: the customers must limit their use to meet Telstra's
limited infrastructure.

The customers' view: Telstra must provide the infrastructure to meet
whatever services we require.

If Telstra persists in its inflexible planning attitude, then in a
very short time Australia will be stuck with a telecommunications
network below the standards of the poorest countries in the third
world.

Michael Wines.
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