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From: Gordon Milne <***@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2005 9:39 AM
Subject: Re: Draft determination on TelstraClear's application for UBS out
To: Paul Warner <***@bigfoot.com>
Well, I think it looks different to what went before.
The determination talks of access to the full bandwith of the DSLAMs
and not Telecom's rate limited access.
It compares the pricing for residential and business use of ADSL and
asks the question why the cost to a business is so much higher. Our
monthly ADSL bill is several hundreds of dollars a months compared to
my 2M/128k/10G plan at home. Yes, its 2M up and down but, even so, it
is more than 10 times the price of my residential plan. That does
seems excessive and symptomatic of a 'clipping the ticket' approach
taken by Telecom.
I would back full LLU but that would require the control of the LL to
be remoived from Telecom and given to some third-party who is charged
with providing open access to all. I would find it hard to trust
Telecom with this. In any event, Telecom know little of what their
technology does, they just want o send people bits of paper demanding
money. In many ways, life would be easier for them if they became a
'billing' organisation with no fixed assets of thir own.
TelstraClear is hardly the white knight in this affair either. In
Australia, they act just like Telecom does here and take every
opportunity to drag their feet.
I have only skimmed the draft determination but I did see mention of
the 'churn' fee. If anything is going to hold back migration of
customers from one supplier to the next, it is a high churn fee. It
needs to get down to $25 for it to become 'easy' for people to change
supplier. And, with a high degree of electronic automation in
exchanges these days, it does not seem unreasonable that switch a
customer from one ISP to another should be little more than issuing an
electronic instruction to do so. If it takes more than that, or worse
still, requires physical human intervention, then the churn fee will
remain high and a vibrant ADSL market will not come into existence.
Post by Paul WarnerTo me it still looks like the same old crap as before. TelstraClear
resells Telecom dial tone in the guise of a TelstraClear dial tone. Now
they sell the same old ADSL from Telecom with a different label of
TelstraClear. No doubt the same limitations and same high price.
The only thing that will for this sort of crap out is full LLU but I can't
see this happening this side of the 22 Century.
Quote
"Similarly, Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand head Ernie
Newman is dancing a jig over the draft determination. Newman lauds it as a
"breakthrough for residential and smaller business broadband users" and
believes it will enable TelstraClear to enhance Telecom's services rather
than just reselling them at a small margin."
This guy is very easily pleazed it would appear..
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