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| Thread ID: 62850 | 2005-10-21 19:54:00 | New Zealand still way down in rankings for broadband usage | manicminer (4219) | PC World Chat |
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| 398171 | 2005-10-21 19:54:00 | Same old story. No great surprises here. Well done Telecom. www.nzherald.co.nz "New Zealand continues to wallow in the basement of global broadband uptake thanks to Telecom, internet experts say...." |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 398172 | 2005-10-21 20:10:00 | Internet experts say? You dont have to be a rocket scientist to figure that! Those figures are sad :( real sad! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 398173 | 2005-10-21 23:39:00 | how can we higher the rank? sad |
dds (7234) | ||
| 398174 | 2005-10-21 23:43:00 | So what? If people want to remain on dialup why shouldn't they be allowed to? | pctek (84) | ||
| 398175 | 2005-10-22 00:20:00 | Colin Jackson, president of Internet NZ. Hmmm I was wondering what this was about, wondering who internet NZ was, so i Googled them and went to their website and found this: InternetNZ is a not for profit organisation fostering coordinated and cooperative development of the Internet in New Zealand. As the guardian of the Internet for NZ, it comments and advises on local issues and represents the NZ Internet community globally. That, to me, seems like a lot more of a usefull approach to the Telecom monopoly and improving broadband than the telescum etc sites. :2cents: |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 398176 | 2005-10-22 00:37:00 | So what? If people want to remain on dialup why shouldn't they be allowed to? hmmm... (www.edward.net.nz) It's not that people don't want to upgrade to broadband, because most people do, it's just that telecom makes it too expensive and restrictive for most people to get it. That's the point in the article, telecom is the cause of not high broadband rankings, not because we "want to remain on dialup" |
Edward (31) | ||
| 398177 | 2005-10-22 01:22:00 | There's a simple way to get cheap broadband. Just tow New Zealand ten thousand miles or so north. Hook into one of the fat cables, and you've got the access. Then everyone who wants the service can move into multistory apartments, all within a few square miles, so the internal cabling will be cheap. About the population density of Hong Kong should do it. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 398178 | 2005-10-22 04:30:00 | There's a simple way to get cheap broadband. Just tow New Zealand ten thousand miles or so north. Hook into one of the fat cables, and you've got the access. Then everyone who wants the service can move into multistory apartments, all within a few square miles, so the internal cabling will be cheap. About the population density of Hong Kong should do it. My friend decided to leave nz and travel to australia for study due to the high cost in nz..He said that the first problem was the internet.Back home in HK he can get a connection of 6mbps unlimited for $40NZ...It's an unshared connection so he gets the full 6mbps..hmm.... I won't be staying for long either.Nz is proving too expensive to me.But people are quite friendly here I must say.I'll probably leave in 2 years time..:)Nice talking to all of u! |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 398179 | 2005-10-22 05:22:00 | hmmm... (www.edward.net.nz) It's not that people don't want to upgrade to broadband, because most people do, it's just that telecom makes it too expensive and restrictive for most people to get it. That's the point in the article, telecom is the cause of not high broadband rankings, not because we "want to remain on dialup" $29.95 is not exactly expensive. I have come across quite a few people on dial up who aren't interested. All depends on what your usage of its for. So stuff your point. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 398180 | 2005-10-22 05:55:00 | I am v happy on dialup even thou I have times left the computer on overnight to download. I pay $12hr for 150hr, which is quite unlimited for myself. $30 or $40 is too expensive for myself. We don't use a 2nd phoneline so there is less incentive to get BB. I would think the 1GB limit imposed by Telecom isn't v big for a month. I been using 10Mbit connection at varsity for $12/mo for the jackpoint so Jetstream is .... I surf mostly with the odd audio conference so its manageable on dialup. I would like to upgrade thou. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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