On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Roland Turner wrote:
> I have the impression that Dazza's point is subtly different: his
> viewpoint appears (to me) to be that if you choose cable you will get
> poorer service because you are using a shared access medium whereas if
> you choose ADSL you will get better service because you aren't. (This is
> quite different from arguing that cable is a shared medium and ADSL is
> not. This is a question of fact and, clearly, we are in agreement about
> it.) As customers of any of the three services in question do not get to
> mix and match, then this concern cannot be meaningfully seperated from
> concerns about the shared media immediately upstream. My argument is
> that the service that you'll experience will be the result of commercial
> pressures, not technical limitations. Dazza's argument is that the
> service that you'll receive will be the result of technical limitations,
> not commercial pressures.
Incorrect assumption.
My argument was that you _may_ get worse service on Cable - not that you
will.
As fr the commercial realities - I believe I expressed myself pretty
clearly - Telstra will shaft Cable users to force people to use ADSL. The
same as they did with analog mobile phones, and before that the old "radio
based" mobile phones.
And that's all I'm going o say on the subject. Telstra sucks. :-)
DaZZa
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