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| Thread ID: 57944 | 2005-05-17 04:03:00 | Good news for us Kiwis | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 355865 | 2005-05-17 04:03:00 | "The Government will spend up to $400 million on digital strategy initiatives over the next five years. By 2007, the Government wants all main businesses, research institutes, MUSH networks and medium-size provincial businesses to be able to get fibre connections with on-demand fast broadband, capable of video conferencing. The target for residential customers and small and medium enterprises is lower - copper or wireless connections, and only 60 per cent access to fast broadband. To build community capacity, including training in information and communications technology skills and developing regional or community-specific content, the Government is putting $20.7 million into a Community Partnership Fund." Read the rest here (www.nzherald.co.nz) Hopefully this is not just empty election-time hype. :rolleyes: |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 355866 | 2005-05-17 04:12:00 | 2007!! What the heck are they waiting for. Economical 5mb/s, without unbudling it ain't going to happen. Until it happens it's just empty rhetoric. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 355867 | 2005-05-17 04:16:00 | $400 million subsidy for telecom? 60 Percent access?....well thats Auckland and Wellington covered. They can shove that crap, I want my 400 million back. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 355868 | 2005-05-17 06:14:00 | The broadband infrastructure is very backward here in NZ.. and yes.. what are they waiting for? Most Asian countries have 2mb UNLIMITED broadband whereas here, we have 2mbits but with a 10GB download cap. I have 12 people using computers in my flat (it's a huge flat with 15+ individuals living in it) and 10GB would mean no download whatsoever save web browsing only. Come on people... we need to catch up with the rest of the world.... This is like a long-distance race only we are currently several laps behind everyone else. |
jamesjiao (2163) | ||
| 355869 | 2005-05-17 06:24:00 | Money squandered on "policy initiatives" doesn't do anything useful . It goes to the very deep pockets of overseas "experts" and "consultants" like Pricewaterhouse_whatever_the _hell_ they_are_called . It would probably go to Arthur Anderson too if they hadn't been too blatant . It will produce jargon-filled "reports" and "plans", all based on the idea that NZ is just like a mediumsized US city with a population of about 4 million, with quite a few million more within an hour's (fast) driving . They will ignore the fact that we are a few thousand miles away from the rest of the world . They will ignore the fact that our population is thinly spread over long distances . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 355870 | 2005-05-17 07:10:00 | Most Asian countries have 2mb UNLIMITED broadband whereas here, we have 2mbits but with a 10GB download cap . Talking about data cap, why do the ISP in NZ need to have such concept as "data cap"? :yuck: I've never heard of it in other countries . :@@: Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 355871 | 2005-05-17 07:33:00 | I think it's a good idea . Struth Galore it's better than nothing and if that's what we all got you'd whingeing too . :D Of course the consultant/expert cartel is going to skim a big % of it but complain about then . And we're behind Asia/the rest of the world? We've got one of the lowest population densities of the developed countries so infrastructual costs are higher . A subsidy to Telecom? Get stuck into the monopoly that is Telecom . You want a better deal pressure everybody to abandon Xtra . Every government's "initiatives" are going to have an eye and three quarters on the ballot box at least but don't knock something just because it doesn't come up to your dream standards . I live in the wop wops with crackly old copper wires and would like to have it improved and didn't cost me a cent . You're confusing a "way things are" criticism with one specific instance of it . Focus . :2cents: :p |
mark c (247) | ||
| 355872 | 2005-05-17 09:00:00 | Remember the Telecom ad with the viewer being taken down the fibre optic backbone of NZ from Dunedin to Auck and it was all just around the corner. Tomorrow still has not come. Remember the information age with NZ at the forefront, ha ha. Most of the population still on dial up and the rest on over priced single figure multiples of dial up (adsl). Reasonably priced Broadband, don't make me laugh. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 355873 | 2005-05-17 09:25:00 | How much of that bandwidth will be used up by the Pubs/Clubs, having to have all there Gaming Machines hooked up for centeral monitoring which, has it happens, is suposed to be done by 2007. Coinsidence? | craigb (4884) | ||
| 355874 | 2005-05-17 10:07:00 | Promises, promises. Didnt the government force Telecom to do something about the local loop? And then .. nothing.... we are still waiting... :( PS Dont forget its election year. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
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