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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.


>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.

Michael Wines.
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