Adrian Stott wrote: > In a market, competition eventually results in the price for anything > being just slightly above the cost of provision. What?! Provision cost has NOTHING to do with it. Telecoms companies are among the worst offenders in this respect. Text messaging costs literally nothing to provide for example but it's only ever given away "free" as a loss leader on expensive voice contracts.
> Since the cost of provision of a wifi hotspot at Limehouse is almost > nil, once you've added the cost of collecting any payments it might as > well be free. I assume you've not had to use a public wireless access point recently then. BT and T-Mobile (among others) don't think it should be free. Incidentally, presumably you would apply the same logic to on line moorings then...? Oh s*d it, I bit again ;-) Steve NB Bream
