Long calls no prob. says Telstra

[Richard Welykochy]

Robin Whittle wrote:
> 
> For the last nine weeks, I have been permanently connected to the Net
> via a 33.6 kbps modem phone call, to Telstra Internet's Permanent
> Modem service:
> 
>    http://www.telstra.net.au/pricenew.html

[SNIP]

> telephone resources for two cents an hour could be measured in
> angstroms, but now I can reduce this to exactly zero.
  ^^^^ what's that, about 10^-10m ?


>    Telstra: We were wrong about Net
>    --------------------------------
> 
>    By Geoff Long
> 
>    A Telstra official has admitted that the
>    carrier overestimated the congestion problems
>    associated with the Internet, one of the prime
>    reasons given when it wanted to introduce timed
>    local calls.

So when's the legislation going to be rescinded ;-]


Richard Welykochy

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