<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Mark Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org">nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">If I'm forced to<br>
pay for something I don't need, and as my spending capacity has a limit,<br>
another deserving market/industry misses out. The result is unnecessary<br>
things existing, and things that I consider necessary, and would spend<br>
my money on if I could afford it, won't exist (which may be as<br>
simple as a monthly Internet quota increase, and the corresponding<br>
employment and products that are created to supply that increased<br>
Internet service.) This is the broken window fallacy.<br></blockquote><div><br>Mark,<br><br>I have a suspicion that the alternative will be the NBN Co overbuild you, which *may* not be the case if you offer wholesale "NBN-grade" services. Or maybe I'm totally off the track.<br>
<br>-- Dmitri<br></div></div>