Re: Canadian ISP Makes Really Bad Decision

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From: Dave Smith
Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 17:09

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Ron Kritzman wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> > It is not all you can eat, but not more than three crab legs.
>
> What it boils down to is that people have no common sense when it
> comes to the use of shared facilities.
>
> Picture the crab leg scenario at home.  Mom passes around a plate of
> crab legs and one of the kids shovels them all onto his own plate.
> We know what comes next.  Mom makes him put them back, then allows
> him to take a normal portion.  If the kid does this all the time, or
> if all the kids do it, Mom will estsblish a "house rule" of 3 crab
> legs per serving.

You're talking apples and oranges. When mom takes in a boarder and
offers all you can eat, things change. Sympatico charges higher rates
for unlimited DSL than it does for dial up connections. Part of the
marketing spiel was about how telephone lines and dial up connections
only use a small fraction of the line's capacity and the Hi Speed
Edition makes use of the extra capacity.

I t would seem that some here buy the Bell argument that making full use
of the HSE that customers subscribed to is taxing their system and
causing problems. I have not experienced those problems, but having seen
enough of Bell's marketing strategy in the past, it looks more like they
encouraged people to switch from other providers to their service.
Having stifled their competition, they now want to gouge their users.

The business/government agenda these days is pushing for reduced
regulation and increased competition. A well regulated system would have
required businesses like Bell to show that they could provide the
service they offer before being allowed to offer it.

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