The Commerce Commission's STD (apt TLA) on sub-loop unbundling, ie, how much to get in a cabinet, is out, 26% above the price for LLU (the price to connect to the copper in the exchange), and then the cost of backhaul from the cabinet to... an exchange I guess, needs to be factored in.

The additional cost has been lamely justified by ComCom due to the misapprehension "that service providers will be able to provide customers with higher-value services over sub-loop services, resulting in a higher return on investment."

Excuse me, but the services I get over the connectivity I rent from an ISP have little, and getting less, to do with the ISP (who have always been misnamed, IMHO, they are ITPs, Internet Transit Providers, a commodity with a Help Desk.)

ISPs are not going to get any additional high-margin services revenue, from me, whether they are in a cabinet or the exchange. The services, Google, Facebook, et al, aren't an ISP matter.

Serendipitously while visiting Laurence Millar's freshly released blog, I notice a link in his sidebar to a Slashdot story, "Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay?"

My first thought was, "should programmers edit open source for pay," to which I believe the overwhelming answer is yes. It is core to the benefits of free software that those who can't program and want changes or to contribute can pay someone to perform on their behalf.

How is an open source encyclopedia different?

Particularly since, I noticed in the comments a link to this:

The reward board is an informal page where users who want a specific task related to Wikipedia (such as the promotion of an article to featured article status or the editing of an image) can offer a reward to editors willing to take on the task. The execution and details of the transaction are the responsibility of the participating parties, and the reward can be monetary, goods (books, cookies, etc.), barnstars, or tit-for-tat editing (like improving another article).Wikipedia:Reward board

The answer is, they do.