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| Thread ID: 81889 | 2007-08-09 03:45:00 | And so it begins.... AGAIN!!! | winmacguy (3367) | Press F1 |
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| 578895 | 2007-08-10 00:00:00 | There IS fibre in Auckland residential streets (on the North Shore anyway). I worked for UnitedNetworks back in the day and they were very busy laying fibre when doing undergrounding of power lines (conduits side-by-side). It's just no-one is bothering to use the damn things!!! Forgod sakes RESIDENTIAL, you cannot go and get a residential cable plan in Auckland can you? Some residential streets will of course have fiber, but to link a business area or university or backhaul from other exchanges etc. Still not intended for residential use. There was some residential fiber started I agree, but squashed by the ACC as posted above, however knowing any of this will not help Aucklander's get a World class broadband connection any time in the near future, and unfortunately unbundling won't help that cause much either. Lets skip all this foreplay and go residential fiber now, have to do it eventually. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 578896 | 2007-08-10 00:21:00 | Bah. We're not gonna see any change.:( |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 578897 | 2007-08-10 01:02:00 | Knowing Telecom Of Course you will, dont they always supply what they promise ?. LMAO - :lol: :lol: - Just like we are all going to win Lotto this weekend.:D I'd be VERY surprised if much changes. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 578898 | 2007-08-10 01:11:00 | but they are still using copper wire? *** is up with using ancient technology and equipment? if they were only to use fiber optic, and allowed customers to pay the extra to have fiber line right into their houses, imagine the extra speed we would get? Me and a friend have tried multiple times to get fiber right into our houses, even though we were going to pay every step of the way, telecom wouldn't allow us to. To make it even more thick-headed, they were laying the fiber lines for the mains right outside our houses! all they would've had to do was run it off the exchange (about 100 meters away) and we could've had fiber right into the house! But Oh NO! that would mean good thinking and good speeds telecom thought, can't allow our customers to actaully be happy and get good speeds can we? lol |
Bozo (8540) | ||
| 578899 | 2007-08-10 05:50:00 | Thats a dead link STU | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 578900 | 2007-08-10 12:57:00 | but they are still using copper wire? *** is up with using ancient technology and equipment? if they were only to use fiber optic, and allowed customers to pay the extra to have fiber line right into their houses, imagine the extra speed we would get? Me and a friend have tried multiple times to get fiber right into our houses, even though we were going to pay every step of the way, telecom wouldn't allow us to. To make it even more thick-headed, they were laying the fiber lines for the mains right outside our houses! all they would've had to do was run it off the exchange (about 100 meters away) and we could've had fiber right into the house! But Oh NO! that would mean good thinking and good speeds telecom thought, can't allow our customers to actaully be happy and get good speeds can we? lol But ADSL uses copper lines. Telecom only provide residential broadband via ADSL. There is nothing stopping you installing your own fibre optic, but you won't find a provider to use it, unless you live in a telstra area that provides fibre. What I want to know is why Slingshot weren't at the exchange ready to install their equipment. They have gone very quiet since unbundling was announced, and that they will now have to put their money where their mouth has been. I expected that sleazy Malcom Dick to be their, although he wold look rather old a crusty next to the young guys from Orcon and Vodafone(aka ihug). Telecom now has no incentive to upgrade to fibre optic, becuase if they did invest heavily in such technology, the government could also force them to open up their fibre network. I think the only solution is for the government to install it. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 578901 | 2007-08-10 23:44:00 | Forgive my Cynicality (A word?) but the only ones who will benefit will be the ones who make the money. Any improvements will only cost US more. PJ | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 578902 | 2007-08-11 04:26:00 | I was told years ago by someone who worked for the railways, that there was a fibre optic cable running the length of the country, either near or beside the rails, but the railways wouldn't let anyone else use it. I could be wrong though. :2cents: Correct. I believe it was sold to Clear by Transrail about 10 years ago.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 578903 | 2007-08-11 05:34:00 | Well i don't particularly care wether we get faster broadband or not. Since I have been with xnet I always d/l at better than 3 mb's a second and upload at about 750 KBS. I'm more than happy with that. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 578904 | 2007-08-11 05:52:00 | Forgive my Cynicality (A word?) but the only ones who will benefit will be the ones who make the money. Any improvements will only cost US more. PJ The word you were searching for is cynicism PJ, and under a capitalist society it's the rich wot gets the pleasure and the poor wot gets the blame. Under the alternative system for redistribution of wealth as offered by modern socialism of course, it's the rich wot gets the pleasure and the poor wot gets the blame. Under the only other viable alternative of a Mugabe styled dictatorship, the rich don't get no pleasure and the poor don't live long enough to worry about anything as frivolous as broadband. Cynical? Moi? Cheers Billy 8-{) :dogeye: |
Billy T (70) | ||
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