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| Thread ID: 88003 | 2008-03-11 23:37:00 | Broadband - Should The Government Simply Buy a Satellite? | Winston001 (3612) | PC World Chat |
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| 648678 | 2008-03-11 23:37:00 | Should the NZ government buy Xtra and a satellite (or sufficent bandwidth) and provide fast broadband to the whole nation? I'm thinking that the cost would be subsidised by the taxpayer, not at current satellite rates. Cheapish for all. What do you think? |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 648679 | 2008-03-11 23:45:00 | Winston - I think that is a great idea. Was the idea sparked off by the recent happenings with the Awaru tracking station? |
R.M. (561) | ||
| 648680 | 2008-03-11 23:54:00 | Winston - I think that is a great idea . Was the idea sparked off by the recent happenings with the Awarua tracking station? Er . . no, but now you mention it, there is another astronomy project for Awarua involving a Very Large Array but it requires fast broadband . What will happen is a radio telescope will be linked with another in Auckland and one/two in Australia . These radio scopes function as one giant telescope provided the data is correctly linked . Hasn't been confirmed yet and may go to South Africa instead - fingers crossed . Awarua (just out of Invercargill) has one of the worlds best radio sites and was used during the Second World War to watch German transmissions . |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 648681 | 2008-03-12 00:58:00 | Satellite: www.beehive.govt.nz And it has lag. So good idea for those without any kind of broadband but not for everyone. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 648682 | 2008-03-12 12:40:00 | Should the NZ government buy Xtra and a satellite (or sufficent bandwidth) and provide fast broadband to the whole nation? I'm thinking that the cost would be subsidised by the taxpayer, not at current satellite rates. Cheapish for all. What do you think? Slloooooooooooow. Expensive plus everyone would have to get a satellite dish etc. How about using that money to laid fiber atleast to all the cities first and then working outwards using WI-MAX. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 648683 | 2008-03-12 18:47:00 | Surely it would be cheaper to buy space on the Fibre that already runs between all the cities. Some of the routes have 3 or 4 providers. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 648684 | 2008-03-13 01:30:00 | This very expensive item would "subsidized by the taxpayer" of course. Thanks a lot. Broadband is one item where userpays should rule. Believe it or not, a broadband "unlimited" Internet connection is not essential to life. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 648685 | 2008-03-13 07:24:00 | This very expensive item would "subsidized by the taxpayer" of course. Thanks a lot. Broadband is one item where userpays should rule. Believe it or not, a broadband "unlimited" Internet connection is not essential to life. I agree that broadband in nz should be fast, but not just so that we can d'l movies and pron. That is not in the national interest. Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 648686 | 2008-03-13 11:43:00 | I agree that broadband in nz should be fast, but not just so that we can d'l movies and pron. That is not in the national interest. Regards Digby What? Keeping people happy and entertained for cheap? Hell yeah, that is in the national interest :lol: |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
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