[LINK] The farce that is Telstra

[Richard Chirgwin]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 11:35 AM 29/06/2008, Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>>> Telstra itself has none of these issues.
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>> This happened to me 12 months ago when my, then. ADSL provider "lost" my
>> connection.  They couldn't get it back because of the "no ports
>> available" cry, but Hel$tra was able to provide a Bigpong service - at a
>> price...
>>     
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> That looks like a racket and should be reported to the TIO and ACCC.
>   
The ports belong to the provider: the ADSL provider owns the DSLAM and 
is therefore reponsible for managing the ports on that DSLAM. So it's 
perfectly credible - probably commonplace - that one provider has ports 
and another provider has none.

That's not the same as the debate about rack space in the exchange ...

RC
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