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| Thread ID: 77578 | 2007-03-14 08:24:00 | Sunday TV One Its about Broadband Again | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 532990 | 2007-03-18 09:13:00 | Not entirely. They did mention infrastructure and fibre. Still, why bother, talking about it endlessly accomplishs nothing, we know all this. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 532991 | 2007-03-18 09:15:00 | Well, yet once again the TV media are unable to grasp just why Telecoms' Go Large plan was/is so slow. No mention of the traffic management problems. Back to the congestion excuse again. TVNZ hinted that telecom had been misleading the public with unleashed download speeds. However TVNZ i belive greatly misled us into watching this sunday program, claiming that they had new and shocking information. There was nothing new in it at all, they just trawled up the same old stuff, or stuff that most people already knew. |
rogerp (6864) | ||
| 532992 | 2007-03-18 09:16:00 | If any one missed the story on NZ Broadband on “Sunday” I record it & I will be putting it online, in about an hour or two. Better be careful not to breach copyright laws :) |
rogerp (6864) | ||
| 532993 | 2007-03-18 09:18:00 | To survive and grow in the telco market, they do need to get into the Australian market, as the NZ market is too small, and their income will decrease from unbundling, unless they produce new products or look at other markets. That said, unbundling is only going to benefit people who live in high population areas as these areas are the only places that will economical for other ISPs to install and maintain their own equipment. Low population areas telecom will continue to be the soleprovider of equipment, which will mean that they will need to put their prices up in those areas, to offset the small margins in hgh population areas. Maybe Telecom NZ should look at Swedish 100Mb broadband. Sweden is roughly the same land area and population density as NZ.:rolleyes: |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 532994 | 2007-03-18 09:18:00 | So telecon did have a cable network ready to go in competition with saturn in wellington, but because saturn ran out of money telecon stopped putting in the rest of their cable network now its called a dark fibre network because its not functioning. What a waste of money to have those cables sitting outside peoples gates in wellington doing nothing. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 532995 | 2007-03-18 09:40:00 | Well, yet once again the TV media are unable to grasp just why Telecoms' Go Large plan was/is so slow. No mention of the traffic management problems. Back to the congestion excuse again. And once again we get the same stuff recycled back at us again. We already knew Telecom were doing a crap job, TVNZ told us that last year, twice. |
miknz (3731) | ||
| 532996 | 2007-03-18 09:42:00 | Well, talk about a bunch of moaners! TVNZ didn't make this programme for you know-it-all types. It was made for the average viewer - and in my opinion served him/her well, considering time constraints The fact that Telecom has been misleading everyone (Sorry, not you lot, of course) was finally made loud & clear, instead of being skirted around in the past. There was enough technical info to explain broadband basics to the uninitiated (Nobody cares about the fine points except purists. Why waste available time?) What counted here was the politics of the issue. And that's what the TV item would've been expected to deal with. It's a Current Affairs show, not a Science one. The item some of you would probably prefer would be either so technical it'd bore the pants off most viewers or so long that it'd take a documentary team a year to film. Edit: I see more posts since I started writing this. Not all moans, thank heavens. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 532997 | 2007-03-18 09:49:00 | TVNZ hinted that telecom had been misleading the public with unleashed download speeds. However TVNZ i belive greatly misled us into watching this sunday program, claiming that they had new and shocking information. There was nothing new in it at all, they just trawled up the same old stuff, or stuff that most people already knew. You knew about Wellington's unfinished/unused cable network? And you'd heard those 2 senior former Telecom employees coming out with "insider" criticisms? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 532998 | 2007-03-18 10:00:00 | What relevance do telecom or xtra have to broadband? They are in the business of broad charging for sweet - - not much. Really, it is just a matter of how much policy is due to indifference, how much to incompetence, how much to malice, and the remainder can be attributed to greed. Did I miss any of their motives?:confused: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 532999 | 2007-03-18 10:06:00 | Laura, whilst not disagreeing with you that much :), what the program did not make clear in any way shape or form for the average viewer who happens to be on Go Large is the principal reason why their broadband is so slow. ..And that reason is not inadequate 'backhaul' or lack of investment, it is that the traffic management plan with Go Large is/was not working from the word go. All traffic on that plan is being 'managed' as though it was P2P 24/7, with the result that many/most on Go Large are only getting a few kilobytes per second download. The traffic management in reality is not what the Telecom conditions stated. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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