"Sean M. Doran" wrote:
Sean Donelan writes:
| The joy of single provider service.
No, you mean: the joy of a rapacious monopoly with a spineless regulator.
[snip] could be worse, we could have an (even more) incompetent rapacious monopoly and *no* regulator. The situation in New Zealand is as follows: ADSL users can pay as much as $NZ199 a month (about $80) for an ASDL connection. After the first 1.5GB of data they then pay an additional 18c per MB! If they have a static IP address they can also expect several "micro-outages" per hour because Telecom NZ are using RIP and don't appear to know how to configure it. http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/81476e1c0cf66ad0cc256896007c00e7/07df662a6b... http://www.idg.co.nz/webhome.nsf/UNID/2F7C0A112F35370ECC256B0800747B0F!opend... (apologies for the absurdly long links.) Giles -- ================================================================= Giles Heron Principal Network Architect PacketExchange Ltd. ph: +44 7880 506185 "if you build it they will yawn" =================================================================