According to an article in today's Mercury News or SFExaminer, Telstra has also decided that 70% of the bits on US-Australia Internet connections are now going from Australia to the US rather than the earlier ~100% US->Australia direction - so it wants a major reevaluation of who pays for the trunks connecting the Internets in the two countries (currently Telstra pays most of the costs.)
http://www.australian.aust.com/computer/fulltext/c1014b.htm Telstra: We were wrong about Net By GEOFF LONG October 14: A Telstra official has admitted that the carrier overestimated the congestion problems associated with the Internet, one of the prime reasons given when it wanted to introduce timed local calls.
Speaking at the launch of Telstra's Big Pond Business services, Big Pond general manager John Rolland said congestion caused by Internet users connecting for long periods was not as big an issue as they first thought.
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