LEE Tet Yoon
2006-03-23 20:19:20 UTC
According to the Herald, Telecom will annouce that they're going to start installing equipment for ADSL2+ by June http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10374150 and offer it by the year's end. Why they choose to annouce this at this time, who knows? A cynic might wonder if the timing has anything to do with the gov getting calls from Vint Cerf http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10374148 to regulate. And given that he's here for the ICAAN meeting, one must wonder if he's the only one...
For those of you who read Paul's article on Computerworld (as pointed out a about 2 weeks ago by Don Gould on the chat list) http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8C5DBE5FD947E244CC25712D000A4992 might wonder if Paul's predicitons are coming true.
As you can probably guess if you didn't know already, I don't particularly like Telecom or what they're doing in NZ so stop now if you don't agree and can't tolerate a healthy dose of sarcasm.
In any case, they've used it as an opportunity to try and blackmail the government by basically saying they slow the roll out down if the government regulates. Why the government should care if they want to give away their customers to their competitors is beyond me but anyway. I guess they're hoping the purported $150-$170 million they're going to invest will help, they've made a fuss before about how little Ihug's initial promise of investing $20 million is. Why anyone should be happy that of the billions they're raking off NZers they're putting a tiny bit back when necessary to starve of competition and regulation is again beyond me.
It sounds to me like they're going to offer it off regular exchanges in answer to Brian Gibbons question a few days ago. No indications yet of what speeds we're talking about about but they are suggesting video calls and internet TV as possibilities. I guess we can expect something in the range of 11mbits eventually at most since we all know unlimited ADSL is bad as it reduces the range/reach and 2-3mbit of that will be used for their TV/video. Well unless their spectral management policy doesn't apply to high density urban centres. Telecom never mentioned this before AFAIK but It wouldn't be the first time they forgot to tell us all something. In any case, I'm guessing they'll start off with say 6.5mbits.
I guess the biggest questions are what kind of upstream speeds and what caps? I've we're lucky maybe 256k will be the default, unless you're willing to pay a lot in which case you'll get 1mbit perhaps. As for caps, maybe you'll be able to get a cool 400mb with you 4.5mbit plan for your cheap $30. If you accidently use it in 15 minutes you'll only get charged 1c a mb or limited to 128k. If your wiling to pay $60 I guess you'll get a 6.5mbit/256k plan with 20gb. Is that cool or what?
Oh did we forget to mention the 500:1 contention ratio?
The future of the internet in NZ is in safe hands with Telecom...
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For those of you who read Paul's article on Computerworld (as pointed out a about 2 weeks ago by Don Gould on the chat list) http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/8C5DBE5FD947E244CC25712D000A4992 might wonder if Paul's predicitons are coming true.
As you can probably guess if you didn't know already, I don't particularly like Telecom or what they're doing in NZ so stop now if you don't agree and can't tolerate a healthy dose of sarcasm.
In any case, they've used it as an opportunity to try and blackmail the government by basically saying they slow the roll out down if the government regulates. Why the government should care if they want to give away their customers to their competitors is beyond me but anyway. I guess they're hoping the purported $150-$170 million they're going to invest will help, they've made a fuss before about how little Ihug's initial promise of investing $20 million is. Why anyone should be happy that of the billions they're raking off NZers they're putting a tiny bit back when necessary to starve of competition and regulation is again beyond me.
It sounds to me like they're going to offer it off regular exchanges in answer to Brian Gibbons question a few days ago. No indications yet of what speeds we're talking about about but they are suggesting video calls and internet TV as possibilities. I guess we can expect something in the range of 11mbits eventually at most since we all know unlimited ADSL is bad as it reduces the range/reach and 2-3mbit of that will be used for their TV/video. Well unless their spectral management policy doesn't apply to high density urban centres. Telecom never mentioned this before AFAIK but It wouldn't be the first time they forgot to tell us all something. In any case, I'm guessing they'll start off with say 6.5mbits.
I guess the biggest questions are what kind of upstream speeds and what caps? I've we're lucky maybe 256k will be the default, unless you're willing to pay a lot in which case you'll get 1mbit perhaps. As for caps, maybe you'll be able to get a cool 400mb with you 4.5mbit plan for your cheap $30. If you accidently use it in 15 minutes you'll only get charged 1c a mb or limited to 128k. If your wiling to pay $60 I guess you'll get a 6.5mbit/256k plan with 20gb. Is that cool or what?
Oh did we forget to mention the 500:1 contention ratio?
The future of the internet in NZ is in safe hands with Telecom...
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