I live in an even smaller town of only 2500 people and in all honesty I can't complain about Telstra. My dial up ISP is 35 km away and I regularly connect at 48,000 or better. Not bad for a rural town still on an analogue exchange.
For people like me the introduction of competition will not make a large difference. How could a small provider, given the same infrastructure, be able to offer a better service and still earn a reasonable profit? I'm sure that if there was a profit to be made then Telstra would have acted on it in the first place.
It's not as if Telstra will lose out completely on this new ruling. I'm sure that these new telecos will have to pay a small commission back to Telstra. After all Telstra would be responsible for servicing and maintaining the network. With this in mind, how will this "commission" be determined? Will this see the introduction of timed local calls? If I swap to a new teleco will that mean that any service faults I report will be put at the bottom of the pile?
If I was Telstra, any services that weren't turning a profit would be pulled like a bad tooth, roots and all. If a competing teleco wants to offer that same service then let them fork out for the instalation and servicing of equipment and lines.
I'm not pro Telstra by any means. I jut know how I would feel if after spending millions of dollars setting up and servicing a business some beuracrat comes along and tells me to share my equipment with a competitor. And to rub salt in to the wound I would still be responsible for maintaining the equipment.
I can't remember where I heard it.... probably here... but due to the use of the "F@#$" word in the linux code.... well does that mean I wont be able to download new kernels as they are released?
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I live in an even smaller town of only 2500 people and in all honesty I can't complain about Telstra. My dial up ISP is 35 km away and I regularly connect at 48,000 or better. Not bad for a rural town still on an analogue exchange.
For people like me the introduction of competition will not make a large difference. How could a small provider, given the same infrastructure, be able to offer a better service and still earn a reasonable profit? I'm sure that if there was a profit to be made then Telstra would have acted on it in the first place.
It's not as if Telstra will lose out completely on this new ruling. I'm sure that these new telecos will have to pay a small commission back to Telstra. After all Telstra would be responsible for servicing and maintaining the network. With this in mind, how will this "commission" be determined? Will this see the introduction of timed local calls? If I swap to a new teleco will that mean that any service faults I report will be put at the bottom of the pile?
If I was Telstra, any services that weren't turning a profit would be pulled like a bad tooth, roots and all. If a competing teleco wants to offer that same service then let them fork out for the instalation and servicing of equipment and lines.
I'm not pro Telstra by any means. I jut know how I would feel if after spending millions of dollars setting up and servicing a business some beuracrat comes along and tells me to share my equipment with a competitor. And to rub salt in to the wound I would still be responsible for maintaining the equipment.
I can't remember where I heard it.... probably here... but due to the use of the "F@#$" word in the linux code.... well does that mean I wont be able to download new kernels as they are released?