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Gregory Peter Kaloutsis wrote:

> 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.

Let's look at this from a different perspective. I have a line from my 
home to the exchange that is dedicated to my use, and I pay a rental fee 
that presumably covers the costs of its existence.

If I use that line to connect to my service provider, in the next suburb, 
 for three hours, then I tie up a line from their exchange to their site 
- but they're paying the costs of that.

I'm also using switching equipment in each exchange, and a voice circuit 
between them. This equipment and circuit is capable of transferring about 
28.8kbs in each direction. I'm not using them to that extent though. In 
reality, my average baud rate is a small fraction of that. The bandwidth 
is being wasted.

If Telstra would connect my line to a packet switched network, and charge 
me based on the data I sent and transmitted, then they'd be able to 
support my link to my ISP, and that of many people like me, without 
problems with bandwidth.

If Telstra are having problems with people abusing the voice telephone 
service, this is only because they've so far failed to provide any 
reasonably priced alternative (I gather they admitted that they charge 
for ISDN ten (10) times what it costs them).

Sylvia.