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I don't understand why NZ doesn't build another pipe or two.
by hexis 16y ago
I don't understand why NZ doesn't build another pipe or two.
- heresy 16y agoThe Pacific Fibre guys are trying to do just that, as another poster mentioned. Telecom NZ is of the mindset that bandwidth is a scarce resource that will run out and needs the maximum revenue extracted from it (yet never to be upgraded, capacity wise). Which ironically leads to half of Southern Cross capacity lying fallow because their prices are too high. Pacific Fibre cannot come soon enough, and when they do, Telecom cannot die fast enough.
- bloodnok 16y agoMy boss is one of the people behind the Pacific Fibre project. I can't wait, but it's still a few years away. NZ is stuck in the position of having a fair amount of international bandwidth and plenty within the country, but usage is hamstrung by unrealistic data caps. (20GB is the common premium plan for heavy users). With caps like that large-volume applications like IP-TV have been very slow to catch on, although the TelecomNZ-Tivo partnership is changing that, albeit only because TelecomNZ doesn't count that data when working out your usage.