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| Thread ID: 74131 | 2006-11-12 19:03:00 | Orcon - such a nice company | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 498429 | 2006-11-12 19:03:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz Internet and phone company Orcon plans to attack Sky Television's customer base by delivering programmes over the internet via super-fast broadband to television sets once Telecom opens its network to competitors next year. Orcon planned to price movies at about $1 each and television packages would be split between 25 channels a month for $25 and 52 channels for $30, compared to Sky's satellite entry-level packages of about $15 a week. Which is wrong - I pay Sky $45 a month for basic digital Sky - not $60. Orcon, which uses Telecom's copper network, planned to go further than Telecom by installing VDSL2+, the second generation broadband service capable of "blistering" download speeds up to 100 megabits. Telecom uses broadband ADSL2+ with maximum download speeds of up to 8 megabits. Oooohhhh....I must rush off and contact Orcon to see when Wyndham will be getting this installed. ;) |
pctek (84) | ||
| 498430 | 2006-11-12 20:57:00 | Be fair, THEY know what they mean. Actually, were I to change ISPs , Orcon would be my first choice. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 498431 | 2006-11-12 20:59:00 | Telecom uses broadband ADSL2+ with maximum download speeds of up to 8 megabits. LOL!! They never seem to get it right do they? |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 498432 | 2006-11-12 21:05:00 | Of course. telecom will level the playing field by limiting users to 3 minutes of movie per day, provided that only one minute of that is between 4PM and 11PM. Any excess will result in the exceeder being restricted to black and white slide shows with no sound :lol: :lol: :groan: | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 498433 | 2006-11-13 00:00:00 | I had never heard of VDSL2+ before, so I looked it up. 150Mb/s with a range of 300 meters :groan: I wonder how far it will go before it drops off completely? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 498434 | 2006-11-13 01:10:00 | I had never heard of VDSL2+ before, so I looked it up. 150Mb/s with a range of 300 meters :groan: I wonder how far it will go before it drops off completely? 100metres. :D And it will be Auckland only. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 498435 | 2006-11-13 01:51:00 | Since when did Telecom start installing ADSL2+ hardware? That's news to me. | byte (11156) | ||
| 498436 | 2006-11-13 02:18:00 | Perhaps the NZ Herald Business Reporter, Jenny Keown should be blamed for the errors? | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 498437 | 2006-11-13 06:28:00 | Since when did Telecom start installing ADSL2+ hardware? That's news to me. They didn't, Yet. blogs.pcworld.co.nz Also new from Telecom: the first wave of the company's EVDO rev a network will roll out in December in Auckland's CBD, with other centres to be covered by mid 2007. Data pricing will be the same as the current EVDO rev 0 (that is, $49/gigabyte for the mainstay plan) but you will need to buy a new data card to take advantage of the new network's superior speed (3.1MB/sec download compared to rev 0's 2.4Mbit/s, and 1.8Mbit/s upload compared to Rev 0's 155Kbit/s). The latest on DSL2+ is that this new technology - which will allow bandwidth of up to 25Mbit/sec - will now roll out from the first quarter of 2007. Telecom says delays have been caused by a decision to build new DSL2+ network instead of grafting it onto the existing network. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 498438 | 2006-11-13 10:59:00 | Which is wrong - I pay Sky $45 a month for basic digital Sky - not $60. It says about ;) All this stuff happening now and I decide to move to the SI :mad: |
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