Broadband News
Lots of stuff this week on broadband in NZ. The co-founder of the Internet and chief evangalist for Google, Vint Cerf, has slated the lack of competition in the broadband market in NZ and the need to open up access.
Telecom has announced it will start installing ADSL technology later this year and hence in 2007 download speeds of up to 24 Mb/s may be available. This is very welcome but the devil will be in the details. What the price will be, what data caps may apply, what user ratios will be and wholesale arrangements.
Christopher Niesche in the Herald writes on how Telecom’s announcement doesn’t change the need for reform.
And as an example of why we need dramatically better broadband look at this announcement from Universal Studios that it will start selling movie downloads over the Internet.
March 26th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Telecom’s ADSL2+ will be a joke.
Just look at their new offerings for 3.5Mb/s plans.
I heard that Matt Crockett stated the other day that the new ADSL2+ plans will be targeted towards the “average” household.
Yeah right.
Telecom have no idea at all that the “average” household won’t be willing to pay $200+ a month for this.
I assume this price because Telecom’s 3.5Mb/512k 40GB plan is $150.
March 26th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Last year I was staying at a friends house in the country, just out of Hamilton, and they could only get 36K dial up speed. I kid you not!. I was so dumfounded I thought they had some setup wrong and checked but that was the fastest, not even 48/56K.
With Telecom ‘moving’ to ADSL2+, just means all the old boxes will be palmed off to small town NZ, or even to larger exchanges where the plebs wont notice they get the old stuff while business gets the newer equipment