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abeech@enterprise.powerup.com.au wrote:

>Greetings one and all,

>How many people have heard the rumors that Telstra have applied to the 
>Government seeking approval to time charge local Internet calls?
SNIP
OK so Telstra want to charge for local calls. The classic case of the innocent
suffer for greedy.

Let's look at the wider picture. Joh Bloggs at home dials up his friend and
talks for an hour or so. That's ok no one worries. But then that same person
rings up his ISP and holds the line up for 5 hours. Still not so bad because he
eventually has to hang up and get some shut eye.
But the real problems are the business people who use a POTS line for permanent
or semi permanent connections. They hold the line up for days on end.

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.

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!

So hering lies the problem. IMHO I think there should be some limitation on the
length of time for local calls. Lets say a limit of 2 to 3 hours per local call
unit. So a 6 hour local call will still only cost local call units.

BUT! at the same time recognise those calls that do not use the IEN and not
impose any call limitations.

PLEASE NOTE THESE VIEWS ARE MY OWN AND NOT OF THE COMPANY I WORK FOR.
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