Telecom’s fibre plans
I’m pleased to see Telecom commit to fibe deployment which will acheive speeds of up to 20 MB/sec within five years to all areas with 500 or more phone lines. That’s a pretty good investment in getting fibre to the node. Of course that is only a halfway house to having fibe to the home but nevertheless still good progress.
The article has a couple of sound bites from me, taken while driving back from Oamaru yesterday. Also had an interview with ZB on Thursday with Kate Hawkesbury on the Mallard affair. I think I was kinder on Trevor than Kate was!
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October 27th, 2007 at 9:42 am
great commitment… unless of course the rest of the developed world (and plenty of the third world) have >200MB/sec in same timeframe !
October 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
You were a bit gentle on Trevor, not sure if it was when you talking to her or in the intro, but she had a great line about about Trevor getting hit by the kama bus.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:24 am
You know, when I heard this news the first thing I could think of was those tui ads
Telecom to achieve speeds of 20MB / sec | Yeah Right
Ill put my scepticism behind me and hope this roles out smoothly
October 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
If you don’t think you’ll get glass fibre for a while…
why not push for 250 Mbit/s copper?
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22639169-421,00.html
October 27th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Not much to light my fire on this subject. Humbly suggest that DPF rekindle the job with a take on that pussy bashing piece of shit aka The Lionman being promoted once again by nanny state TV1.Where do these incompetants come from?
October 27th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
DPF: Have you deliberately mis-spelled “fibre” or is “fibe” some sort of shorthand or brandname. Not being snarky, I thought it was a misspelling but then noticed it was consistent.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Thanks. You missed one. I thought it might have been a brand name!
October 27th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
While this is moving forward, I think it is tip toeing forward rather than stepping. ADSL2+ was originally supposed to be introduced in 2006. It isn’t a new technology and it is limited by wire distance from the exchange even more than ADSL is.
That said, I’m ok I’ll get a reasonable speed. However 50% of the population in the district I live in have no chance as they live in towns (and it is towns, not areas) with fewer than 500 connections (going by population size) or are completely rural.
The move to place fibre to towns with 500 or more connections is good. It would be nice to see some communities/companies building on this by setting up mesh networks or similar in places like this.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Having just returned from an extended overseas trip (work not holidays) in Europe and North America, I can attest to the general and widespread LACK of internet access. I was, frankly surprised. Even though it is slow and a pig, the xtra link I am using at a friend’s place right now is SO much better than most of the links I had throughout Europe. That includes hotels, friends’ houses, etc. When I heard that the former head of BT’s internet section was going to become head of Telecom, I shuddered. BT’s internet service is notorious – worse than Telecom’s xtra – and people put up with it.
I liked someone else’s suggestion for using the surplus to kit out the country with fibre. It is a major piece of infrastructure that would raise the level of the country’s capabilities. It should rank right up there with power lines, roads, etc.
So we aren’t lagging all that far behind – not behind the norm, at any rate. We may lag the BEST that anyone else has, but only a very few have access to the best.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
I think this is pretty half assed to be honest. I have 100mbit at work, 10/2 at home. Telstra is going to release their 25/5 plan next month.
Telecom are far behind. 20mbit is still slow by world standards.
And what’s the upload speed going to be? 128k?
5gb international?
Still no free national traffic?
It’s a scam.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Yeh, right…I still can’t get broadband where I am, and neither can a guy at my work who lives half an hour from me. And who is going to pay for satellite at the prices they charge? $129 for a monthly 1GB at 256kbps download speed? I don’t think so…
Get with the plan Telecom – I can get broadband 9kms away at work but not where I am, supposedly because we are too far away from the exchange and our ancient road cabinet is at full capacity.
Not good enough.
October 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
The only thing Oz has ever done for me is cable to the house.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Telecom/xtra can not even manage the service they supply now.
Again I have had a run in with them. Yahoo Extra Bubble asked me for a password every time going to the home page. I complained and was told to revert to the xtra home page, told to change my Norton Internet Security settings, told it was my fault, not theirs, that the service is not working.
But hang on, I accepted the terms and conditions for the upgrade.
I really think Telecom/xtra needs a change of name. Try “Pelican”
Then they can both shove their bills up their arse.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
you guys make we glad I haven’t got the money that generates your kind of problems.
Perhaps when I get ma degree in a couple of years all these hassles will be a thing of the past and I will internet to ma hearts content at triple speed and sonic boom.
sorry you guys had to be the pioneers,, commiserations.
October 27th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
What kills broadband in New Zealand is not low speed, but caps on data. Does anybody else in the world have data caps? Not North America, not the UK or Europe, and not Asia including at least some developing countries there.
I don’t understand how the rest of the world gets unlimited data while New Zealand is subject to not only a cap but a very low cap of 10gb/month.
October 27th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
“I don’t understand how the rest of the world gets unlimited data while New Zealand is subject to not only a cap but a very low cap of 10gb/month.”
I don’t know much about these things, but I’ve always smelt this rat.
simply put though, its user pays and we as a nation have to pay top dollar for everything.
there’s a reason for that,
we let it happen
October 27th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
I don’t know why any really currently needs more than about 2Mbit/sec
Enough to watch video in real time and download the odd movie
Can someone please explain?
October 27th, 2007 at 10:42 pm
Currently many people struggle to get 2Mbit/sec and they are supposed to be on full speed ADSL. Have you ever noticed the slowdowns that occur at peak times?
Besides, “currently” has nothing to do with what will be needed in the future. Sure you can download a video at 2Mbit/sec – but how long is it going to take you? What are you going to do when you spontaneously want to watch DVD quality films and there is no local video store with anything worth while on offer because the online stores offering DVD quality downloads that take just a few minutes to download have basically killed them off – however you are still stuck with a crappy 2Mbit/sec download rate.
October 27th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
And of course as Winston tells me time without end, “The copper wire is an assett!”
October 28th, 2007 at 1:15 am
Regarding the international data, it’s bs.
Basically, an ISP pays for the bandwidth, not data. IE: If an ISP has a 100mbit international pipe, they pay for the pipe. Not the data. So lets say that 100mbit int pipe costs them $20k a month, that’s all they pay. You can download as much as you want, still only costs 20k.
So yes, they are pulling the wool over our eyes. I know for a fact there is alot of spare bandwidth… this is the way ISP’s make money in NZ. Charge for data.
October 28th, 2007 at 1:19 am
If you want good net, you have to pay for it… about $500 a month for a good 10/10 connection, then you still have data issues. Hope to god telstra take up their threat to Telecom and lay fiber under sea. That will root data prices in nz… I doubt it’s going to happen tho.