[wellylug] Info for TelstraClear Cable users - Plan changes

[Jp Wise]

Well.... I wonder if this has anything to do with Telstraclear 
de-peering?  Suddenly they've realised that national traffic is costing 
them....

Ian Beardslee wrote:

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>From: Chris Hodgetts <>
>To: Wellington Linux Users Group <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
>Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:08:09 +1300
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] Info for TelstraClear Cable users - Plan changes
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>>Quote from Article:
>>	A spokesman for TelstraClear says existing internet customers can
>>choose to remain on their current plans, which will continue to 
>>offer the data split. 
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>>so stick with your guns, and if they do move you, go to the
>>Telecommunications commissioner and anyone else you can goto with
>>regards to the breaking of your contract, fair trading act?? -
>>considering in the news media Telstraclear have stated that you are
>>able
>>to say on your current plan.
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>>Dunno ;)
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>Bit of a pisser though, because I'm on a one gig plan, and was waiting to
>see if I needed to move to a higher capped plan.  I was going to do that
>for my xmas pressie to myself, but looks like I was too late to make
>changes.  I suppose I should monitor my national/international traffic
>over the next couple of months to see what sort of impact it will have.
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>A sad state of affairs really, when they start doing things like this
>peoplel will start thinking why do I need to do any hosting within NZ? if
>there is no real advantage for people (well ok lower latency maybe).  
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>Essentially people will stop hosting in NZ, because most people will get
>content from overseas (where the majority of international customers
>live).  With no (or minimal) local hosting the telcos will just have
>higher costs associated with having to provide international bandwidth
>(either that or the end users get lower performance) either way the NZ
>customers are gonna get robbed.
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>It's like paying a fixed price per minute on the phone no matter where you
>are dialing - no free local calling.  A call to outer Siberia would be the
>same cost as the call to the neighbour - where are they gonna get their
>cost recovery from?  the local call of course.
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>Pack of thieving bastards.
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