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Thread ID: 136359 2014-02-20 19:52:00 Telecom changing its name to Spark pcuser42 (130) PC World Chat
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1368210 2014-02-21 20:47:00 Telecom changing its name to Spark - Pathetic, all managerial staff above tea lady should be fired and then rehired, if they wish, on a monthly trial basis.

I really resent having to pay exorbitant prices for internet access and then see them messing around like this.
zqwerty (97)
1368211 2014-02-21 21:01:00 Telecom changing its name to Spark - Pathetic, all managerial staff above tea lady should be fired and then rehired, if they wish, on a monthly trial basis.I really resent having to pay exorbitant prices for internet access and then see them messing around like this.There are alternatives to telecom if you feel that strongly about it plod (107)
1368212 2014-02-21 21:48:00 There are alternatives to telecom if you feel that strongly about it
But can the alternatives offer you the wealth of downsides that the sparks at telecom can reliably deliver?
R2x1 (4628)
1368213 2014-02-21 21:55:00 Telecom changing its name to Spark - Pathetic, all managerial staff above tea lady should be fired and then rehired, if they wish, on a monthly trial basis.

I really resent having to pay exorbitant prices for internet access and then see them messing around like this.

Well you can change to other providors
I'm with Actrix, so I suppose some of that goes to Chorus
Which is another great name that will go down as one of the marketing greats alongside Apple, Kodak, Nike, and Adkaf.
Digby (677)
1368214 2014-02-21 21:55:00 Telecom changing its name to Spark - Pathetic, all managerial staff above tea lady should be fired and then rehired, if they wish, on a monthly trial basis.

I really resent having to pay exorbitant prices for internet access and then see them messing around like this.

Well you can change to other providors
I'm with Actrix, so I suppose some of that goes to Chorus
Which is another great name that will go down as one of the marketing greats alongside Apple, Kodak, Nike, and Adkaf.
Digby (677)
1368215 2014-02-21 22:05:00 Another senior moment above, I see :) :) Zippity (58)
1368216 2014-02-21 22:38:00 Shockingly Pathetic And Redundant Krap.. Internet TV!!?? We still get too much buffering on our adsl audio-only here in the north! They should improve service before going off willy - nilly into new ventures thought up by some telecom exec who spent too much time watching Netflix while on some paid holiday to the states.. BigBadBob (14963)
1368217 2014-02-21 23:05:00 Yes Netflix seems to be the goto.

But they are in 40 countries - why not NZ ?

I suppose we are too small

We need more people in NZ and less Telecom executives.

Yes promote the tea ladies!
Digby (677)
1368218 2014-02-21 23:52:00 Yes Netflix seems to be the goto.

But they are in 40 countries - why not NZ ?

I suppose we are too small

We need more people in NZ and less Telecom executives.

Yes promote the tea ladies!

Why not NZ? Probably because local distributors of media have contracts with exclusive distribution rights for all the big producers with long term expiry dates. And the size of the NZ market is not worth the effort to try to break or renegotiate those contracts.

I still disagree that NZ needs more people... More people equates to more negatives from a lifestyle point of view and would also negate the reason why many people want to live here in the first place...
johcar (6283)
1368219 2014-02-22 00:04:00 Test equipment was what HP started out doing, this was their first commercial product.
en.wikipedia.org

Yes, then they got into PCs etc, so it was silly when they abandoned the HP name for their test gear division and called it Agilent.
And even sillier when Agilent spun it off again and rebranded it to KeySight.
Agent_24 (57)
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