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| 451619 | 2006-05-03 13:23:00 | On an earler thread about this topic someone made a brilliant comment that I have always thought about. If most people / everyone decides that broardband is the way to go and change over then our pipes out of the country won't be able to cope. Now to date there hasn't been any debate that I have seen on the ability of the current system to sustain broardband usage at the much higher levels that the govt envisages. Can the country actually do it? |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 451620 | 2006-05-03 13:53:00 | You mean that all those adverts about the children moving into the future and would we be going with them, with the fly-overs of the optical fibre backbone and the futuristic cities were just more Telecom BS then? Surely if the normal wiring for telephone connections exists, and it does, then the existing backbone will be able to support at least dsl instead of dial up if not adsl and more for everyone. Here's hoping. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 451621 | 2006-05-03 23:15:00 | You mean that all those adverts about the children moving into the future and would we be going with them, with the fly-overs of the optical fibre backbone and the futuristic cities were just more Telecom BS then? that was the plot to get all young people having microwave generators next to their heads and in their pockets...maybee telecon has shares in future cancer treatment ? |
Organicpete (133) | ||
| 451622 | 2006-05-04 02:19:00 | I'd like to see what sort of guarantees the rural areas will get. The major cities will be fine due to population density, and my bet is that most service providers will "cherry-pick" these; but those out in the rural sector will probably get way less than that available to them now. The whole thing smacks of "squeaky-wheel" syndrome; but I guess that's the way this government seems to manage our country. :groan: |
Antmannz (6583) | ||
| 451623 | 2006-05-04 04:31:00 | Probe II and satellite for rural areas, apparently. Tis all there in black and white, no details yet though, some stupid (criminal) sod preempted the announcement |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 451624 | 2006-05-04 08:53:00 | I'd be interested in how long it'll take ISPs to take advantage of LLU (that is, when it actually occurs). It is strange that a well-developed country such as NZ only has one international link. I have been previously aware of this and of the fact that this is why our international usage is always capped. However, can't more links be established one way or another? I suppose it's easier said than done but it'll probably be something which'll have to happen in the near future. |
technicianxp (6463) | ||
| 451625 | 2006-05-04 22:49:00 | Anyone considered the ethics of the government action? Telecom paid for the whole setup. Surely it's wrong to take it off them. Then Telecom ,like any other business, set out to make money. I can't see how they can be criticised for that. What I'm waiting for is the reaction from the yanks when they find out about it. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if we see a big back down by our government. Is it ethical to award a monopoly to anyone? I t was common practise for kings to give a monopoly to people in return for there support via men etc for wars. This practise should have gone with the feudal system. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 451626 | 2006-05-04 22:54:00 | Who cares what the yanks think about it?? I doubt the Govt will back down now . As it has been announced and everyone knows about it . It WOULD be a big mistake for the govt to renege . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 451627 | 2006-05-04 23:49:00 | Anyone considered the ethics of the government action? Telecom paid for the whole setup. Surely it's wrong to take it off them. Then Telecom ,like any other business, set out to make money. I can't see how they can be critised for that. What I'm waiting for is the reaction from the yanks when they find out about it. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if we see a big back down by our government. But Telecom did NOT pay for the whole setup did they! You and I paid for all the landlines and cables etc as taxpayers. Telecom was owned by the people. At least when the Govt sold it we had the Kiwi Share which stopped Telecom from charging for local calls which they wanted to do. Senior people were allowed to have a price reduction at one time and maybe they still can but if you wanted internet you had to pay the full rate. I believe that Telecom is allowed to make money but it is a monopoly as things stand. At the moment I can go shop at BP, Mobil, Shell, Challenge and even Gull for petrol but the interesting part there is the price is very similar. Don't tell me that price fixing does not go on there. As people we do not even know who owns what unless we take the trouble to find out. Went shopping a few days ago at Betta Electrical and spent $1098 on a washing machine and dryer. They both work perfectly so far. Checked on my bank account a few days later and found the same amount of money went to Waitomo Energy. Go figure. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 451628 | 2006-05-05 00:02:00 | But Telecom did NOT pay for the whole setup did they! You and I paid for all the landlines and cables etc as taxpayers . Telecom was owned by the people . . By the people? Thats pushing it describing it that way . And Telecom has not exactly sat on its backside since 1991 . There have been changes in the hardware now running in the exchanges, I know, all the stuff my husband ran around the country installing in his last couple of years there is now obsolete and gone . There have been a few new exchanges installed . Before making commnets on the "others" lets all wait and see who now does what . |
pctek (84) | ||
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