For a glimpse of how broadband works with local loop unbundling and competition, see http://tinyurl.com/ok2o8 Telecom's service, by way of comparison, seems to...
Yup this happens to me too. My telstra cable goes slow on peak hours around dinner time. Jun ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Dennis, have you considered switching to Woosh ? I have a friend who works there and he has been trying to persuade me over a month now to switch. Woosh...
Sione
sionep@...
Jun 1, 2006 11:22 pm
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Woosh are unhappy because they can not get download speeds above 2Mb and won't be able to with their technology. If they could get speeds that people actually...
Hi, Sione, Richard already responded to the Woosh part. I've got some comments on the rest, below. ... I'm sure that there's a certain amount of resentment...
Here is some court cases: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/19/yourmoney/msft.php I am gonna respond later of why I think that pickybacking on Telecom's...
Sione
sionep@...
Jun 2, 2006 2:45 am
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... Although I am not a Woosh customer, I may agree with you about the long-term survival of their technology, which it cannot compete with landline copper or...
Sione
sionep@...
Jun 2, 2006 5:27 am
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... I am aware that Microsoft violated the anti-trust law and was taken to court by the Justice Department. US Congress enacted the anti-trust law in late...
Sione
sionep@...
Jun 6, 2006 1:40 am
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Microsoft knowingly broke the law. The merits and history of the law broken do not excuse their actions. With regard to Telecom, the arguments are simply...
Hi Martin, ... You must be old! I do remember that stac gave better compression than the first version of MS (doublespace). Also stac did not go through all...
... And by implication, another old guy, huh? :-) Nope, never heard of Don as far as I remember. I did work on PDP-11s, but only in assembler, and at the time...
... Not at all. My good friend who had recently completed a PhD on Text Compression Algorithms at Canterbury Uni was an expert witness for Microsoft in that ...
Bruce Chapman
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Jun 6, 2006 4:40 am
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Interesting discussion! I just wanted to add another scenario to your list since I am one of the "whingers" who lobbied the government to do something: So you...
Nigel Charman
Nigel.Charman@...
Jun 6, 2006 4:57 am
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... So I come along and want to set up a leasing company because I know there are people like you getting a bum deal. But I only have enough capital to buy a...
Bruce Chapman
bchapman@...
Jun 6, 2006 5:35 am
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... I'd actually say that the beamer dealer gave away the road with the beamers. She now realises that wasn't a great idea, since the roads aren't being...
Nigel Charman
Nigel.Charman@...
Jun 6, 2006 6:29 am
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The next Wellington Java User Group meeting will be held on: Wednesday, 14th. June, 2006 5.00pm for 5:15-6:30pm Sun Level 9 22-28 Willeston Street Wellington ...
[ My last post on Telecom Unbundling, Cheers Sione ] As debate goes on about Unbundling Telecom’s lines, the public only jumped to one conclusion. The...
Sione
sionep@...
Jun 7, 2006 12:43 am
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We've just recently signed up to IHug (still waiting for modem to arrive - *that's* gonna slow ya down for starters!) and apparently the biggest problem is...
Sione: I got about half way thru that and my eyes glazed over - sorry, physics tends to go over my head :) I'm curious, however, on your opinion on: Telstra's...
... ... Or someone else does.... :) That's the point of unbundling - IHUG, ORCON etc can put a DSLAM in your exchange - you don't need to connect to the...
But the ISP still needs a connection from the DSLAM back to their POP. And the most likely candidate for that is Telecom. So nothing's changed really :-(...
Murray Knox
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Jun 7, 2006 1:21 am
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A workmate of mine is a customer of TelstraClear and they claim that they can't do anything - they say they have to wait until Telecom updates the exchange. Is...
Loop hasn't been unbundled yet. (not for another 1-2 years). So they're telling the truth...
Murray Knox
murrayk@...
Jun 7, 2006 1:26 am
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On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 13:08 +1200, Nic Wise wrote: [snip] ... Telecom had their cable network here in our suburb (Wellington). About a year ago Telecom went to...
Sione, thanks for the long and details posts. My view point is that the decision has been made. It might have been a good one. It might have been a bad one....
... Well, if the fibre is still out there will it be available to competitors under the changed rules? And if so, shouldn't Telecom's competitors start...
The announcement of the package stated that only the copper-wire lines are being unbundled: "Today's package includes: * Requiring the unbundling of the local...
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