Fernando San Martín Woerner

Rodrigo has post a story about adsl service by Telefonica, in Chile is not quite different in fact the company where i work was in the same situation this year, Telefonica has some bussiness policies like do not allow IP Phone on their adsl lines, also they block ports for other dangerous services (dangerous for their monopoly), so finally you only can browse web pages with their “broad band” lines, enough for a people who pay for “internet” as you see, people don’t know the difference between internet and web browsing. Other problem is that they don’t support linux, even they punish you if you don’t have windows on your machine, its a crime!, windows users are nice people and deserve service, even if they don’t pay for a license, linux users are “hackers” and hackers are bad people, at least in Chile means to be a cyber delincuent and is better to be away from them. Othe annoying policy from telefonica is that they sell “licences” for their lines, i mean if you pay for a single user you can’t connect a hub or a gateway server to your adsl modem, it’s not allowed, you need to pay for a 5 user service or a multiuser service( off course more expensive than single user), even if technically the service is the same. As you see this is the kind of thing that you can do if you’re a monopoly.