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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Unless I misread the piece, Pat, they *do* intend for customers to mesh non-Telefonica links, which is half of your answer.
I guess we read it differently.
They even mention "Telefonica is currently looking towards developing economies and its huge customer base".
Finally, assuming they ask someone else to do this, can you imagine another network saying "sure, use my DSL link to make your customer happier..."?
Nope, sure can't.
"All our customers are at max rate for their distance" is probably the other half.
Thought about that, but they discuss customers on different tariffs.
It might be useful when everyone is limited to 128 Kbps or something.
I was making the former assumption in my musing.
You know what you do when you make an assumption, right? You make an ASS out of U and MPTION. :)
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