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| Thread ID: 139548 | 2015-05-21 04:26:00 | Have you done this ??? | AppleFan (17097) | PC World Chat |
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| 1401102 | 2015-05-21 04:26:00 | Hey so today i got any email from spark telling me about the broadband charges which may go up from next year . They are getting people to " Say No to Higher Internet Charges ". I did support by what they are asking me to do and that is to have your vote . So far about 8,306 have voted which is great , but i think we will need more votes to achieve the mission . Have you done this ??? If you have then thats great however if you haven't done i would encourage you to do it . Thanks www.becounted.org.nz |
AppleFan (17097) | ||
| 1401103 | 2015-05-21 04:57:00 | For what its worth yes I have | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1401104 | 2015-05-21 06:09:00 | Hmm, my how things change. Spark not so long ago owned chorus and are partly responsible for the current pricing structure. Now that they are just customers of chorus like everyone else they try to keep the prices down. I don't think it was the best of splits from choruses end, telecom/spark kept all the most profitable parts of the business and left chorus with the most problematic from what I can see. Chorus have all the maintenance and installation costs and only the wholesale line charges as revenue. I'm all for cheap internet and keeping the costs down but what happens if chorus goes bankrupt and no one wants to buy it? Does the government end up having to buy it back? Maybe they are making great profits and I'm worrying over nothing but I'm sure this is a a largely emotive one sided argument so far. If building a new network and undercutting chorus was a viable option someone would have done it and we wouldn't need subsidies to get fibre built. The truth is it's uneconomic and nobody wants to make that king of investment. If the copper network didn't exist no company would build it. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1401105 | 2015-05-21 07:21:00 | I got the same email and am about to add my vote. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1401106 | 2015-05-21 09:19:00 | What a hoot, the Gattung chickens coming home to roost. Using confusion as a marketing tool, we know they are not being straight up...................publicaddress.net | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1401107 | 2015-05-21 09:37:00 | The count is now over 13850 and rising rapidly. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1401108 | 2015-05-21 10:30:00 | The count is now over 13850 and rising rapidly. Of course it will continue to rise, it isn't reasonable to expect anyone would want to vote for higher charges. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1401109 | 2015-05-21 12:49:00 | People actually patronise spark and telecom, so a few votes are hardly amazing. If I had a vote that counted, I would be wearing a black hat to cast that vote. |
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| 1401110 | 2015-05-21 19:21:00 | Broadband cost $13,500 a month in 1999? Wow. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1401111 | 2015-05-21 20:51:00 | Broadband cost $13,500 a month in 1999? Wow. In 1999 Telecom New Zealand began providing broadband internet (ADSL) under the name JetStream. Home users were offered 'starter' plans at 128 kbit/s upload and download. Speeds greater than 128 kbit/s were extremely expensive and extra data (beyond the allowance) was charged at over $0.10 per MB. ...bit like charges for cellphone data now.... |
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