To a degree yes - This issue revolves around the inability to provide end-to-end network services due to artificial constraints in the last mile. At our shop we call it "Troubleshooting the Internet" when one of our customers cannot use a service which we provide and in too many cases it involves the last mile and the only fix is to upgrade to Frac T1 or "Business Class" services. - Scott S. Ryan wrote:

Did you all forget this?

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Admin: Offtopic Political Threads Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:29:24 +1200 (NZST) From: Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz> To: nanog@nanog.org

List members are reminder that the NANOG List Acceptable Use Policy states that:

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The current thread on the "Free Market" and "So why don't US citizens get this?" appears to be solely political and should be moved elsewhere.

Simon Lyall NANOG Mailing List Committee

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