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| Thread ID: 123312 | 2012-02-17 00:36:00 | Ultra Fast Broadband | tingle (6539) | PC World Chat |
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| 1259593 | 2012-02-17 00:36:00 | Interesting read here about the Ultra Fast Broadband thing - www.stuff.co.nz ...and damn! I want to work for Crown Fibre - see the last line. |
tingle (6539) | ||
| 1259594 | 2012-02-17 01:10:00 | Yeah don't scrap it, give me a job! :D | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1259595 | 2012-02-18 06:02:00 | Still waiting to see the pricing Plans from the ISPs. If it going to cost more, why would anyone, like me, want any bettr than ADSL2? PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1259596 | 2012-02-18 06:06:00 | "Crown Fibre employs eight staff and paid $2.8 million in salaries and directors' fees last year. " That's quite a bit of money for doing what exactly? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1259597 | 2012-02-18 06:55:00 | "Crown Fibre employs eight staff and paid $2.8 million in salaries and directors' fees last year. " That's quite a bit of money for doing what exactly? Surely you understand that actually doing anything would involve a great deal of added expense? In line with the austerity directives, they have concentrated on conserving energy almost to the exclusion of everything else. However, the new letter-heads have been developed to the "submitting for selection" stage and look quite exciting so far, and development of the Mission Statement is now quite advanced. |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1259598 | 2012-02-19 07:09:00 | Still waiting to see the pricing Plans from the ISPs. If it going to cost more, why would anyone, like me, want any bettr than ADSL2? PJ Exactly - and with the ISPs claiming expensive international bandwidth as a major problem, then there won't any decent plans at all. The government would have spent their money better by backing a new submarine cable to Hawaii. |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1259599 | 2012-02-19 09:46:00 | Let the submarines get their own cable, whether they go backward or forward. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1259600 | 2012-02-19 20:20:00 | Without trying to sound too much like Bill Gates in 1981, I think ADSL2+ is good enough for a large majority, and the rest might enjoy VDSL2. But as it stands, I think Fiber optic is just overkill. That's not to say we shouldn't work towards it, because the sooner we start, the sooner prices (across the board) are going to come down, and the sooner we likely get larger data caps or no caps at all. BUT not many (residential) users will actually *need* the speeds that fiber can offer. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1259601 | 2012-02-19 21:04:00 | Whenever the govenment is asked what we will do with the extra speed of fibre optics. They always say schools and medical. That may be true. But companies like Peter Jackson, Weta will also benefit. But other than that full speed, ADSL+2 is good and so is wireless. But everyone knows that the main use will be (would have been) for downloading home movies. But then again countries like South Korea which has just about every house connencted to high speed, are doing quite well in technology these days. But whatever Telecom asks the government to do, they should do the opposite. (Telecom are far too clever) Telecom have been very good at setting their own level playing fields and killing all opposition. Now they are just one of many players. Don't do it Rob Fife (Air New Zealand CEO) |
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