You're joking! A grand up front and fourteen hundred a year for a slow Internet link! Look, sat service has it's place. And that place is where no copper or fibre exists. It's great. I have built POPs in places all over Australia, because in those places the infrastructure doesn't exist for a viable alternative.
I butture you, I can install my own dish if I needed to, and I can find PanAmSat2 just using my wris****ch and a finger lovetant! But copper gives me a much better service at a drastically lower price. Why bother with a dish?
Quite a bit more than that. I posted the prices and you snipped them.
How are you going to get free VOip?
I agree. I have spent a good deal of my life showing remote and rural people how to connect at a reasonable cost. It does cost. Which does not detract from my point that if the copper or fibre infrastructure is available, you should use it. EVERY telecommunications engineer willl tell you the same thing.
That was the TCO of a one way link.
I thought the idea was "broadband"?
I know. Ten grand MINIMUM.
That's not free is it?
Stats please. I'm a pedant.
I'm glad you like it, and I hope the company does well. I think that compebreastion in the space is a great thing, I always have. I have worked for Optus and Telstra and some smaller concerns. The fact remains, that a better service is provided by using existing infrastructure.
It's a requirements analysis. I don't want a laptop that connects to the net. Not interested, not even a little bit. I live in the city, have half a dozen machines in my house that are connected either by wire or wireless to a Telstra xDSL (ADSL) bigpond service. It works well. The modem was free, the router cost me $190 from OfficeWorks. If I only wanted to drive one machine I would not need the router.
Actually OS-2 was a joint venture between MS, IBM and Intel as a technology backer. I lived through that "interesting" period.
Mark Addinall.
