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| Thread ID: 108620 | 2010-04-05 04:05:00 | Discussion: Why fibre to the door? | Chilling_Silence (9) | PC World Chat |
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| 873153 | 2010-05-28 22:04:00 | But you to are missing the big point, we need to move away from one company controlling nearly our entire infrastructure, there is very little "true" competition in NZ. Telecom Shares have been taking a nose dive, those watching like myself have seen this coming for the last 10 years as Telecom duck and dive regulation. Regulation largely failed (big surprise). Clearly you missed the point where they've had to roll out ADSL2+ cabinets to 80% of the country, when they could well be doing FTTH. Again, the cut up of Telecom Wholesale / ownership by the Govt would *not* specifically mean a cut in the price-per-GB, nor would it specifically mean anything substantial changes for NZ. Technology still has to pay itself off, regardless of if it's installed by a company of their own free will, mandated by the govt, or run entirely by them. All this crap about "The unknown future" ... games still haven't increased in their bandwidth requirements much in the past decade on a per-user basis, but what has changed is that you're now gaming with 32 people in a single game rather than just a couple. HD Video streaming is new, but realistically speaking the demand to stream Full HD video, would be more taxing on users data allowances. THAT is what's preventing innovation in this country (The data allowances, not HD video :p) rather than the throughput of speeds to the home. If you've got issues with throughput, I suggest these are the following main reasons: 1) You're with an ISP like Xnet who are known for their crap quality 2) You're not running off a Node (One of the awesome Whisper Cabinets), or off an upgraded Exchange 3) You're using poor quality CPE. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 873154 | 2010-05-28 22:05:00 | I'm saying that I think Fibre isn't needed right now and VDSL2 would be good enough Full-rate ADSL2+ Annex M would be good enough for me for a long time.... I'm with you on both counts. Anybody who says this country by and large NEEDS anything more than than even ADSL2+ is horribly ignorant of true traffic requirements. Sure, exceptions to the rule are out there, but for the better part if you have a good ADSL2+ connection, you'll not notice the difference between that and a connection with a 4x peak throughput connection. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 873155 | 2010-05-28 23:06:00 | Clearly you missed the point where they've had to roll out ADSL2+ cabinets to 80% of the country, when they could well be doing FTTH. Again, the cut up of Telecom Wholesale / ownership by the Govt would *not* specifically mean a cut in the price-per-GB, Forgod sakes Chilling the title of this thread is " Discussion: Why fibre to the door?" You are bleeting on about data charges! (which I happen to agree needs to be solved but thats part 2) Lets dumb this down as far as we can Why Fibre to the door = Remove Telecom infrastructure monopoly and generate actual competition on a level playing field. Cant make it ANY simpler than that |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 873156 | 2010-05-28 23:27:00 | Me thinks this fibre to the door, multi million dollar investment has to be that. Future investment etc etc .. and we canot lag too far behind the rest of the world. If this enables more competitors that should be good for line mangement. Well for cost and GBs, you don't need a multi million dollar investment to fix price goughing. Hey Telco's here are some 100s of millions for you just for yout promise to drop the prices to our poor citizens... Any idea when Joe and Jane can see more suppliers of "line companies" to their suburbs? Not just CBD. :confused: |
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