Hello Patrick, PL> Respectfully, I think your gasoline analogy is flawed. The gasoline in your PL> tank is a fixed quantity you acquired for a fixed price. When that fixed PL> quantity has been depleted, you will need to return to the vendor for more. PL> Your willingness to share that fixed quantity has no impact on the gasoline PL> vendor. However, with respect to your xDSL, if you are paying a flat fee for PL> an unlimited or even unfixed quantity, then you are offering your friend PL> something you would not otherwise use and, in fact, do not retain in your PL> stock. You are offering him something sitting in the vendor's resale stock. PL> I would argue you have not right to do so, even if that stock cost only 1 PL> cent.
Statement was fine, in this case the fixed property is the bandwidth... once it's all gone you start seeing performance degradation etc... PL> If, however, your usage you pay for is fixed, say capped at 2gig, then you PL> could offer it for your friends. That 2gig resides in your personal stock, PL> once depleted you would have to return to the vendor for more. The provider PL> is therefore not injured by you action. Which is the case on all providers in Australia, and one or 2 of them bluntly put it as such... PL> Having said that, I personally would ultimately like to see government PL> ownership of fiber optic transcontinental lines, then perhaps state and then PL> local control of feeder runs much like the method used by the US federal PL> interstate system, state highway, and county roads. I do not think there is PL> money enough in the transport of IP to support maintenance and expansion, PL> and I would like to see our tax dollars qualifying us to use have access to PL> the media. Then all we would pay for would be content. I am increasingly PL> uncomfortable with content providers owning infrastructure. Our government half owns the local monopoly, and it's no better then any other monopoly people bitch and moan about, in fact could be the worst out of the lot of them, not only is it anti-competitive and does everything it can to interfere with competition where possible, but the govt refuses to do anything about it. There are areas of Sydney that can't even get DSL... (due to pair gains/rims, or just not having dslams installed...). Then again most of the problems are most likely due to the 49.5% non-govt owned share holders that don't give a crap who they screw as long as their making $4bill in profits... -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom
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