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Thread ID: 66140	2006-02-12 20:16:00	guys, great news from our friend telecom..	jackyht2002 (6606)	Press F1

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429560	2006-02-14 05:26:00	So the ultimate ambition is to have television through a broadband connection . Oh dear . Words allowable here fail me . You do of course realise that the entire push for DRM is directly related to the vision of MS to deliver all media (be that television,movies,music,games,news feeds,) straight to you via broadband, to be displayed on your high end HDTV? Hell, the Xbox was founded on this concept, Selective television . Billions upon billions of dollars have been sunk into the project that you are unable to find words to describe . Not that I would touch it, simple old text and graphic sites do me fine, Have no intention of spending a brass razoo to watch any media content (when I can just steal it . . . . . Muhahahahahaha)	Metla (12)
429561	2006-02-14 05:34:00	Hmmm.... I can barely believe most of the responses posted here. About 2 weeks ago, you were all up in arms over an approx. $4 increase in your monthly phone bill. Now Telecom offer an increase in download speed for free, and a reduction in price for business customers, and all I can see here is "whine, whine, whine". UNBELIEVABLE !!!	Antmannz (6583)
429562	2006-02-14 06:07:00	Hmmm.... I can barely believe most of the responses posted here. About 2 weeks ago, you were all up in arms over an approx. $4 increase in your monthly phone bill. Now Telecom offer an increase in download speed for free, and a reduction in price for business customers, and all I can see here is "whine, whine, whine". UNBELIEVABLE !!! NZ has had to put up with a poor overpriced under spec broadband (a term used lightly)for years now. Yesterday they improved things a little in an attempt to quieten down the growing discontent with there monopoly. Try getting a clue about the state of broadband in NZ before you get too happy about these measly improvements. Don't mistake a slight improvement in a cynical attempt to shut you up as a good thing, otherwise the ploy has worked. Slightly better can still = CRAP!	Battleneter (60)
429563	2006-02-14 06:44:00	What a pathetic argument. How about don't download trailers and demos, and use an average 20 megs browsing and emails, then 3gigs per month would be more than adequate for most people. It's a known fact that 90% of Internet usage is used by 10% of people, and most of that is unlawful p2p traffic. Im not sure if this has already been said, but: The internet has changed. There are people like me who like listening to internet radios and downloading big files, and the 10gb limit doesnt go very far (plus i am sharing it with 4 other people, all downloading and playing games atc)...And the upload speeds are still way to slow...slowing down my website. And there is nothing about static ip's...so i assume you can still only get them on business plans... Daniel	dwnz (5333)
429564	2006-02-14 08:05:00	....Whatever I damn feel like. What are you a failed cop? :D Nice one Metla.	maccrazy (6741)
429565	2006-02-14 08:23:00	So the ultimate ambition is to have television through a broadband connection . Oh dear . Words allowable here fail me . I can guarantee you that it will be an increasingly common option (maybe not here, but overseas) within the next year or two . Some people would say: Why do you need satellite when you can get analogue TV (or whatever they are using at the moment) using a regular aerial? It is the same concept, but an alternative to satellite that is more adaptable to changes in technology . :)	maccrazy (6741)
429566	2006-02-14 09:22:00	I think the new offerings from Telecom are pathetic to say the least... a 1.5MB/s increase in speed will hardly be noticed by any current 2Mb user. As stated by users on this forum and others in media publications this latest move by Telecom is nothing but a diversion tactic to keep the government off its back... a tactic a lot of people out there are hoping has not worked. The only way Telecom is going to get any sort of warm reception... and I'm not saying that they would if they achieved this would be to... 1) Increase the download and upload speeds (upload speeds should at a minimum be 50% of the maximum download speed) 2) Remove or increase data caps (increase = at least 2 and a half times the the the size of the biggest data cap available) 3) Lower the price Also on a personal note I would like to say that it disheartens me that some of the posts were derogatory comments about what other users have to say... for example (and this is just a random one I chose) What we all do with our data allowance is our business? Now whether you're a "responsible conservative" bandwith user ir whether you're a normal "raging downloading machine" is irrelevant. The fact of the matter is which ever one you are it wold be nice to be able to do it faster, more often and at a lower price (3 aspects which are very hard to find in any single planned offered.) So I say to you all... Rather than slag each other off about what we use our data caps for and asking for justicfication as to why people can't do things this, that or the other way... why don't we concentrate on the bigger picture and join together to improve what we all agree to be a very dismal excuse for broadband internet. It doesn't matter whether you go through 10GB or not.... it doesn't matter if you don't need a 2Mb upload speed or not and it doesn't matter whether you like watching TV online or not... What does matter is that we can shape things now so that all these are available regardless of whether you want or need them. And finally my final act of defiance towards Telecom... TELECOM... YOU SUCK BIG ONES... WE WILL GET YOU... YOU THIEVING SELFISH B#%*!DS!!!!! Cheers chiefnz	chiefnz (545)
429567	2006-02-14 10:08:00	Here is an example of how one could use 10GB: Download a game demo: 500MB Listen to online radio for an hour or so per day: 2GB Download two HD movie trailers: 200MB General usage per day: 150MB x 30 = 4.5GB Download system updates: 200MB Download application updates: 200MB Buy some music online: 300MB Download a funny video someone sent you: 300MB Random other things: 1GB That gets you to 9.2GB of usage quite easily. Now obviously not everyone is going to use that much, but some will use much more. What say they want to download a 1080i movie trailer instead of a 720p one? Or perhaps they use 250MB of data each day for general usage. Throw in a bit of VOIP (which Telecom would understandably be worried about) and it very quickly adds up. I'm not a fan of unlimited or unmetered solutions but a 25GB cap would be ample for most people. :)Incredible load of BS your figures seem to be (its like watching Windows users saying the sky is falling when all that happened was MS were a day late releasing a non-critical patch) ... I especially like the one on using 2Gig for online radio.. nicely exaggerated :) Sounds like you should PR for Xtra :)	Myth (110)
429568	2006-02-14 17:23:00	Hello I haven't spend much time reading through this post. Just want to mention that people like me (rural) and there is quite a number in NZ are totaly disapointed as the main interest for those Telecomunication giants are the centers as there is obviously more money to be made there with ugrading the speed then serving the rest of the country. Me (and a number of others)being two k's from the telecom exchange is to much for them to do any upgrade so we have to be happy with a "fence wire" alike connection. I can only hope that the get pusht to change theyr attitude and commitment! Gion	notechyet (4479)
429569	2006-02-14 18:59:00	....Whatever I damn feel like. What are you a failed cop? You think anyone has to justify anything by you? Wake up. didnt think so. Is "whatever I damn feel like" a sign on your shop window? If so lead the way cos I am sure that you would be miffed if I went to your shop and took "whatever I damn feel like"	sam m (517)
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