[Gllug] OT Internet connection

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John G Walker wrote:

> > > Things like life-saving services should be factored in as overhead
> > > costs. If a businessman can't work out how to pay his overheads and
> > > make a profit, why should the public subsidise him? (Or her?)
> > 
> > Why should it be an overhead for a business?
> 
> Because it costs them money. That is what an overhead is,

That's not a valid reason for the business to have to pay it. This is a 
hold over from the days of the GPO operating the phone network as a state
monopoly. and those days are very much long gone.

There is no valid reason why a business should have to fund what is 
practically the only means of access to emergency services except in the 
normal course of taxes as per everyone else.

Emergency services are a vital state sector service.

The fact here is that increasingly people are starting to use VoIP which 
often does not offer 999 access because of the cost as well as the 
technical difficulties in stating the location of the caller.

It't not reasonable for the caller to have to pay but it is rediculous 
that the telco has to pay exhorbitant fees to terminate a call to the 
emergency services. 

I'd have no problem with providing free transit for such calls across the 
network but the current situation is grossly unfair.

Jason
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