Nick <[email protected]> wrote: >Adrian Stott wrote: >> Nick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I hope you aren't suggesting that BW should offer a service at less than >>> the market rate in the local area? >> >> Nah. I'm observing that if there were competition the market rate >> would before too long drop to, effectively, zero. > >But you've also argued in the past that because BW give away visitor >mooring spaces they are distorting the market and making it uneconomic >for anyone else to provide paid-for visitor moorings in the vicinity.
<holds face> For some provided items, use by one person precludes use by another. A mooring is an example of this. For others, use by one person does not ... WiFi is, in effect, an example of that. The two types evince different market behaviours. BW's not charging for visitor moorings in popular areas leads to their being a lack of available moorings when a visitor arrives. I can't see this being a problem for WiFi at Limehouse. >You can't have it both ways. I somehow can't believe you think that the >it's once private enterprise have investing in something that BW should >come along and give it away. My parser started emitting smoke when it tried to deal with that paragraph. Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
