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| Thread ID: 63287 | 2005-11-04 07:31:00 | so telecom got its target ahead of schedule... | jackyht2002 (6606) | PC World Chat |
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| 401803 | 2005-11-04 07:31:00 | so. telecom achieve its target 2 months in advance? so what are they going to do now?? are they start to introduce some better deal on broadband??? :D www.telecom-media.co.nz Jacky |
jackyht2002 (6606) | ||
| 401804 | 2005-11-04 07:52:00 | so. are they start to introduce some better deal on broadband??? :D Not unless they are forced to. Either through regulation or competition. The thing that really narks me about this 'target' of theirs is this: How many of those 250000 customers are really on a broadband product? I guess it depends how you define broadband, I suppose. I've been led to believe that the recognised minimum speed for a broadband connection is 384kbs. I could be wrong, but I'm sure I read this somewhere. By my reckoning, I'd say about half those 250000 are receiving 256k, like me. I'm on 256/128 and I'd only really call that 'narrowband' at best. Yet we continue to pay broadband prices for these inferieor products. 2MB/s download may be nice BUT the 128k upload severely restricts how you can utilise this bandwith. Internet is more than a one-way communication - I therefore personally wouldn't class any of NZ's ADSL products as true broadband products. It's obvious to me we are getting ripped off and that Telecom are trying to pull the wool over politicians eyes by saying "hey, we've reached our broadband target with 2 months to spare". Wasn't this target was created by Telecom itself? If so, it was always going to reach this target one way or another. To me, this target is totally irrelevant unless the quality of the products on offer are also taken into account. Just my :2cents: |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 401805 | 2005-11-04 07:55:00 | I guess it depends how you define broadband, I suppose. I've been led to believe that the recognised minimum speed for a broadband connection is 384kbs. I could be wrong, but I'm sure I read this somewhere. By my reckoning, I'd say about half those 250000 are receiving 256k, like me. Yep that's right. Telecom just assumes anyone on ADSL is considered to be on "broadband" |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 401806 | 2005-11-04 08:13:00 | Well here's a broadband definition: en.wikipedia.org Broadband is often called high-speed Internet, because it usually has a high rate of data. In general, any connection to the customer of 256 kbit/s (0.256 Mbit/s) or more is considered broadband Internet. The International Telecommunication Union Standardization Sector (ITU-T) recommendation I.113 has defined broadband as a transmission capacity that is faster than primary rate ISDN, at 1.5 to 2 Mbit/s. The FCC definition of broadband is 200 kbit/s (0.2 Mbit/s) in one direction, and advanced broadband is at least 200 kbit/s in both directions. The OECD has defined broadband as 256 kbit/s in at least one direction and this bit rate is the most common baseline that is marketed as "broadband" around the world. There is no specific bitrate defined by the industry, however, and "broadband" can mean lower-bitrate transmission methods. Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) use this to advantage, in marketing lower-bitrate connections as broadband. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I can't remember now where I read the 384kbs. Must be somewhere. But it seems that 256k is the accepted bare minimum. How we put up with Jetstart (128k) all those years, I don't know. :confused: Edit - here's something on 384kbs. 2 years old too! www.telegraph.co.uk "As a starting point, we know that two years ago broadband was a high speed internet service operating at a minimum speed of 384 kilobits per second (kbps), as the Government told us when it gave an "initial" definition in its 2001 report, UK Online: the Broadband Future. Reasonably enough, much of the internet industry has since been using that figure, with most believing that true broadband operates at at least 512 kbps." |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 401807 | 2005-11-04 08:15:00 | Not to mention, it's on their own web page, blowing their own trumpet, not from another source. Who's to say it's not all smoke and mirrors to confuse the public and the government into believing that they don't need to unbundle the local loop. To me it's just another stalling tactic to make the government leave them alone. And as another aside, making Theresa Gattung look like she's earning her millions. | intel hunter (6666) | ||
| 401808 | 2005-11-04 08:38:00 | I was also under the impression that international standards had "true broadband" 512kb/s ?_? | Edward (31) | ||
| 401809 | 2005-11-04 09:44:00 | nooooooooooooo!! :horrified :eek: :groan: I don’t believe this!!!! NZ is completely screwed now!! :groan: :( |
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| 401810 | 2005-11-04 10:13:00 | Dinosaurs must die | Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
| 401811 | 2005-11-05 04:01:00 | Even if they do take the minimum broadband speed to be 256k, they really shouldn't be including the plans with ridiculously small caps that give you one day of broadband a month. | Greven (91) | ||
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