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| Thread ID: 51159 | 2004-11-13 07:46:00 | OT. Communication Costs | Murray P (44) | Press F1 |
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| 291250 | 2004-11-13 12:26:00 | > I guess > this article (www.stuff.co.nz > html) is old news to most of you. > Interesting why it would be withheld for so long with > some of it now obsolete, but not enough for my > liking. > Murray P Murray, That inf is as you say years old, every time someone tried to iterate it, the one-eyed telescam lovers shouted/abused them down. now its out from an offical source we may get some pressure on Telescam re rectification. The Kiwi share relates to resedential calls, the opt out was/is fair and legall. The areas requiring instant downward adjustment are over charging in mobile calls, still going on, although now down from $2.50 per minuite, and the urserous inter connection costs, both between mobile networks and land line to mobile. Telescam will flog this area as long as they can we need more satalite network support for voip. This will hit Telescam were it hurts and force change. Telescam will rought you anyway they can ,remember this when you have any opourtunity to change, even if the change is not an instant great improvment. No pain NO GAIN. D. |
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| 291251 | 2004-11-13 21:59:00 | Hey Laura, The Kiwi Share "clarifies that free local calls includes standard calls to the Internet and fax calls" The only way around it would be if you choose to pay a lower monthly rental then you agree to be charged for local calls. And with a saving of about $15 per month on monthly rental it equates to about 75 calls. We mainly make cell phone calls so we saved money each month I did not know about this plan, some friends were on this plan. I rung Telecom and enquired about it, they said no worries it can be done at the end of the monthly bill period; although of note its not advertised on TCNZ web site....... |
Cave Servant (6124) | ||
| 291252 | 2004-11-13 23:57:00 | Original definition of the Kiwi Share: Maintain a local free calling option for ordinary residential telephone service; Charge no more than the standard residential rental for ordinary residential telephone service; and Continue to make ordinary residential telephone service as widely available as at 1 November 1989 . They do have an out for uneconomic lines under the TSO, if they can prove to the Government that they place "Unreasonable impairment of overall profitability" on them . Yes Laura, I'm aware of the Kiwi Share and, there is an economic paper on it (amongst others) which was written for the MED (I think) regards the TSO (Telecommunications Service Obligation), which also discusses the technical nature of the share and NZ's telecommunications infrastructure in great detail vis costs, technical merits, present and future needs . I read about 20 pages of this report and skimmed the rest, understood about 10% of the technical stuff but gained enough to know that the authors were not entirely happy with either the technology or the economics or Telecom's claims for both Kiwi Share from other telecom companies or their claims of the cost of current and future infrastructure needs . For the Kiwi Share, the upshot was that Telecom were doing quite nicely thank you, it was not the onerous burden they were reporting it as . Despite getting serious offers, Telecom wont give up the uneconomic lines to other firms, which is what, in part the Kiwi Share covers, and what the other firms operating in NZ pay a fee to Telecom based on their turnover (that includes mobile operators) . Ever wondered why? Murray P |
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