Sorry to say but IMOH the commerce commision will be as effective as a going against a N'rwester at any strength and throwing water at it.
Why? Because they've had since 2000 at least to hit telecom with all the power they could use but they're too scared 'cause Theresa might pull the plug on upgrading the copper lines and the poor cocky and non urban dwellers will be left hanging so to speak. A much better way me thinks is for Helen to ask ever so nicely to Mr/Mrs head of BCL (transmission arm of TV signals and the like) to start offering wireless boardband carrier service (meaning cheaper and higher speeds) than telecom can. Let ISP's do the touting for business. (note BCL could make it a part of it's charter to only allow non national telecos access to the service) Thus telecom is ignored the Kiwishare is ignored (due to BCL taking up rural customers - or should i say other ISPs doing that). And well telecom will improve things and cut costs etc but will be really fighting for market share and without the Govt having to go to court. best case is Govt/BCL drags it's feet like telecom does at the moment and well let market reality do the hurting. 'cause until telecom has it's monopolist position removed (and they'll fight very very hard to keep it) legal moves and not so legal (ie carrot offers to Govt depts and like) to keep it. Telecom won't move. We need a business that's got the infrastructure there and know how in place to provide a national carrier grade service to all nz and undermind telecoms market share. Once you get their market share they will be forced to move or get broken up. And well how many years have i seen things like telecom going to lose local loop blah blah blah. Clear then telstra where supposed to give telecom a whipping but it hasn't happened. forget the commerce commision they're hand wringing gutless spinless .... pack of burrocarts that don't live in reality. well I know after that rant i feel a bit better don't know about you all. And you can agree or disagree to part or all of what i've said _but_ the bottom line is the monopoly (that is telecom) has to go! On Wednesday 15 February 2006 10:33, John Carter wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > You can relieve the tension by having a go at them about the fact that > > they have screwed up the routing to get from Christchurch to Wellington. > > Grrr. This mess makes me just plain mad. > > And now Telecom has promised these new Faster&Cheaper plans to try ward > off regulation. > > I had a look at them on their website. Bah! Foo! They have increased the > speed, haven't made it cheaper for residential customers and have left > the data limit at the same miserable amount. > > Roll on regulation I say. > > Perhaps they can shove the notion of peering down the throats these greedy > ISP's while they are at it. > > Anyone know of the appropriate button to push on to encourage the > regulators? > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > New Zealand > > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. > > "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong > later." > > From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
