Subject: [LINK] Considering Fibre to the Home

[George Bray]

On 5/8/07, Adrian Chadd <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:

> And I've seen first hand (through GrangeNet and AARNet) what its like
> being on the remote end of a super-fast network which is so easy to
> run over quota, departments are too scared to use it lest the university
> is charged for excess.

I absolutely agree Adrian. Volume billing and bit valuation are really
out of step here, and definitely hinder use.

> Don't stifle innovation by providing a 100mbit link to the home and only
> allow people to download 10 gigabytes a month.

Let's hope the architects of this next bit know about that mistake.
Will they be silly enough to charge for broadcast TV by the bit?

> Adrian