[AusNOG] News: Telstra to clamp down on peer-to-peer

James Hodgkinson yaleman at ricetek.net
Wed Feb 6 11:05:27 EST 2013


Telstra will lose market share they don't care about...

>From working there a while back, their whole aim was the "low usage,
high paying" family crowd that just want something that works. It'll
be interesting to see how that goes in the next ten years or so when
the more clueful "internet generation" start being the primary
decision makers...

James

On 6 February 2013 10:01, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
> Lol what a come back!
>
> P2P will never die, Telstra will just lose more market share.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 06/02/2013, at 9:56 AM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:
>
> those heroic champions over at iiNet who won when you sued them in court
> about P2P.
>
> jsl
> --
> John Lindsay - CTO - iiNet
>
> On 06/02/2013, at 9:11 AM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au>
>  wrote:
>
> On 02/05/2013 09:29 PM, Shaun McGuane wrote:
>
> That’s a very valid point Skeeve.
>
> I am wondering what they classify as a heavy downloader?
>
>
>
> The customer base willing to pay more for a higher GB download allowance.
>
> Isn’t that just good business?
>
>
> This discussion suggests to me that Telstra's decision has nothing to do
> with bandwidth and everything to do with music/movie interest groups whom
> Telstra is trying to sweet-talk to increase their margins on Bigpond Music,
> etc.
>
> I can hear the sell now: "You should give us an extra 2% wholesale margin
> because we're doing something about Internet piracy - not like those dirty
> pirates over at iiNet who fought you in court about P2P."
>
> Paul
>
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