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| Thread ID: 40710 | 2003-12-15 11:13:00 | Why do NZ & OZ have bandwidth caps? | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | Press F1 |
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| 200836 | 2003-12-15 23:54:00 | It's because underwater cables running for thousands of miles cost an enormous amount to install . The running costs have to allow for replacement . Look at a map of the world . Look at the populations at the end of the cables to NZ and Australia . Look at the distances inside Australia . Agreed, the internal costs are high . We've got 4 million population spread along 1000 miles (with 25 miles of water between the islands) . Foolish "deregulation", and criminal asset stripping don't help . Of course , a single city of 4 million or 10 million can run optical fibre economically . And if it's on a densly populated continent, the cables between the cities and countries are much cheaper than underwater cables . If you've got 600 million on a continent, cables to another continent with a similar number have the demand and potential competition to get the prices down . But multi thousand mile cables to a continent with 20 odd million and a couple of island with 4 million . . . :_| But you don't know when you are well off . ;-) I can remember when the whole Internet connection for NZ was 56kbps . I can remember ftping to one of the sites in Finland, and seeing their request that people use the mirrors --- because that was Finland's bandwidth too . ;-) And it cost them more because all their traffic went through the US, even when it was directed to Europe . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 200837 | 2003-12-16 01:09:00 | 25 Miles between islands???? Which islands we talking about here Graham L |
dumdum (4965) | ||
| 200838 | 2003-12-16 02:19:00 | I'm picking he's meaning North Island - South Island and possibly fitting in Stewart Island as well. My google skills seem to be lacking today but that distance sounds about right.... I think. | -=JM=- (16) | ||
| 200839 | 2003-12-16 02:57:00 | Apparently 56k is free in Taiwan. MMM lucky... | hazza (2704) | ||
| 200840 | 2003-12-16 03:45:00 | Well when uncapped 512k connection plus the equivalent of Sky Digital is less than what we pay for Dialup here.... then who would want 56k dialup? | somebody (208) | ||
| 200841 | 2003-12-16 04:29:00 | The sad thing is there's not a lot that can be done.. :-( There was that petition a while back, and apparently they were _going_ to re-think their plans, but nothing has happened as of yet :-( |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 200842 | 2003-12-16 23:59:00 | A petition won't influence anyone. Money might. If you make it clear you are prepared to pay the full cost, there might be more bandwidth provided. You won't like the cost. | Graham L (2) | ||
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