[plug] [OT] Dedicated local loop (naked ADSL)

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Fri Feb 11 16:02:57 WST 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 22:20, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:25 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
> > I've been thinking about changing my mobile provider recently and I
> > checked out the Vodafone website. Its quite interested that they
> > advocate dropping your land line and making all your calls with your
> > mobile. Maybe this could work for people that only use the net at work
> > but for most people that need internet access from home (either dialup
> > or adsl) this wouldn't be an option. 
> 
> Maybe they want you to pay GPRS / 3G data charges? One ten-thousand-
> dollar phone bill, coming right up!

I think a friend of mine (Rowan) calculated that it would generate a 1
million dollar phone bill if a Three user to filled a 200g hard drive.

regards,

Chris






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