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| Thread ID: 134203 | 2013-06-10 11:51:00 | A thought on UFB Poor Uptake reasons | HAL9000 (12736) | PC World Chat |
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| 1345335 | 2013-06-24 23:03:00 | Yeah I'd have to agree there, I'd say that's the case with a lot of people. Many are happy with the status quo and just want it for email and Facebook and the occasional YouTube clip. BTW - Welcome back :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345336 | 2013-06-24 23:26:00 | The main bottleneck is the drinking straws we have to suck data through from overseas. If half the money that is being put into UFB was put into a decent cable to the USA etc most people would be more than happy with what they have now. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1345337 | 2013-06-25 00:33:00 | The main bottleneck is the drinking straws we have to suck data through from overseas. If half the money that is being put into UFB was put into a decent cable to the USA etc most people would be more than happy with what they have now. I thought the cable was already more than enough, they just like to rip people off when using it? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1345338 | 2013-06-25 00:36:00 | Yeah the current cable is more than ample, and it's not that expensive either, in fact it's probably one of the cheaper parts of running an ISP, I dunno why so many ISP's go cheap on it :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345339 | 2013-06-25 02:04:00 | So why has everyone been so disappointed that the recent venture to lay another one has failed? Just because of the lack of competition? | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1345340 | 2013-06-25 02:33:00 | The reason for slow UFB being less than popular is the same as the reason that overseas traffic is seen to be slow. Telecom is involved. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1345341 | 2013-06-25 02:37:00 | So why has everyone been so disappointed that the recent venture to lay another one has failed? Just because of the lack of competition? Well another would potentially mean even more data at even faster speeds, but by diversifying your customer base across the two you're going to be stretching profit margins quite thin, so my money would be on one eventually buying up the other for example... I'm still of two mins about it to be honest. I'm liking how this looks though: www.telecom-media.co.nz |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345342 | 2013-06-25 08:11:00 | Snap have just upped the data cap on their $75 UFB plan to 50Gb, so now it compares to our VF plan but $20 cheaper a month | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1345343 | 2013-06-25 08:30:00 | That would get you 100GB on 2talk VDSL2 ;) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1345344 | 2013-06-25 08:40:00 | So down my street in TAT South there's a sign up from chorus saying something about laying a pipeline for UFB. Given what Orcon says on their website, it looks like we'll get it at their predicted time of early 2014. I wonder, will we have netflix by then? If not, then I don't think we'll need it. As it is, I use 40-50gb a month of our 200gb plan on copper, and that's with heavy use compared to what we used to have. |
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