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| Thread ID: 76208 | 2007-01-24 20:31:00 | She's a millionare and still can't get broadband... | bob_doe_nz (92) | PC World Chat |
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| 518952 | 2007-01-24 20:31:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz She may be famous, worth $30 million and connected to Telecom's top brass but Jenny Gibbs is still unable to get broadband at home. And although the Auckland philanthropist lives on Paratai Drive in Orakei, one of the wealthiest streets in New Zealand, and is the former wife of businessman Alan Gibbs - worth $450 million - who was involved in the privatisation of Telecom in the 1980s, Telecom has told her she is living in the wrong area for broadband service. Only one thing to say... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 518953 | 2007-01-24 21:18:00 | Laughing may be good medicine, but not in this case. I feel sorry for her. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 518954 | 2007-01-24 21:49:00 | Just shows how crap the Telecom infrastructure is! Instead of the big fat cat payouts, it should be investing in more equipment. How the top brass justify their salaries is beyond me. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 518955 | 2007-01-24 21:54:00 | Woosh??????? Is it everyones right to get broadband via Telecom. Telecom is a business. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 518956 | 2007-01-24 22:04:00 | They are the only comm's infrastructure in the country. they were originally created from the taxes that you and I pay. That to me means I have a right to all comm's within the boundary of the city that I live & pay taxes to etc. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 518957 | 2007-01-24 22:10:00 | They are the only comm's infrastructure in the country. they were originally created from the taxes that you and I pay. That to me means I have a right to all comm's within the boundary of the city that I live & pay taxes to etc. only phone sevices |
plod (107) | ||
| 518958 | 2007-01-24 23:18:00 | only phone sevices Ah yes, but the broadband that we seek is transferred through those same phone lines, is it not? It doesn't matter what those lines were originally built for or to transfer. I mean across the country, Telecom is raking in the money from Broadband using those same phone lines. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 518959 | 2007-01-24 23:25:00 | Satellite. She can afford it. | Strommer (42) | ||
| 518960 | 2007-01-25 00:56:00 | Ah yes, but the broadband that we seek is transferred through those same phone lines, is it not? It doesn't matter what those lines were originally built for or to transfer. I mean across the country, Telecom is raking in the money from Broadband using those same phone lines. Exactly my point.......we have no choice but Telecom, they have monopoly, therefore................blah blah blah |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 518961 | 2007-01-25 01:06:00 | It gets even better: Updated: 1:14PM Thursday January 25, 2007 A few moments after a Herald article this morning about multimillionaire Jenny Gibbs unable to get broadband from Telecom, the rival phone companies were at her door. Phone and internet companies Vodafone and Woosh were in vans parked outside her house in Paritai Drive testing equipment to see if Gibbs could get wireless broadband this morning. Gibbs is worth $30 million, is the former wife of Alan Gibbs who was involved in the privatisation of Telecom and lives on one of the richest streets in New Zealand. But she has been told by Telecom that she can not get broadband to her house. Instead, Vodafone spokesman Paul Brislen said Gibbs was able to get wireless broadband and it was trying to get in touch with her to offer her a trial Vodem with a one megabit per second download speed. Orcon spokesman Scott Bartlett said it would send a truck up this afternoon to Paritai Drive to see if she could be connected by satellite via a Skype phone. Woosh is sending sales staff door-knocking along Paritai Drive this afternoon. haha, every other phone company part from Telecom is offering her broadband haha :D |
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