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**beloveds** · 08-24-2009, 12:22 AM

It's relatively expensive - the lower population and housing density together with a relatively large land area means the per capita cost of hardware is high.
Then there is the stupid governments we've had that have made a lot of noise about improving the broadband service in the country but the dominant telecom service, TELECOM, has been playing all sorts of delaying and plainly deceptive tricks to make things hard for other companies to provide a service, let alone compete.
Largely as a result, they've been delaying upgrading from ADSL to ADSL2+ except in a few areas of the larger towns - in fact, there are areas where they're restricted to either dialup or privately funded satalite services.
As a result of the TELECOM intransigence, there are now several companies offering wireless 'broadband', but it's still relatively slow.

As a comparison, I'm paying a total of around NZ$100 (US$65) per month* for "unlimited" up and down with a 10G limit (10G is around NZ$11 (US$7.20) pm for each additional pack - I don't d/load much so haven't gone over yet) and that is actually around 2.8Mb/s down and 780kb/s up. Some friends closer to the exchanges are getting close to the rated 8Mb/s down.

*Includes line rental, land line, maintanance and $10 credit towards toll calls - which I've never gone over.

I think this link should see you right with what you're enquiring about.
http://broadband.t5.co.nz/

[edit] The Government is always talking about first class, world leading, etc, but to be honest, in many ways it also resembles a Third World "Banana Republic" - I guess that's due to decades of monkeys leading the country!

08-24-2009, 12:22 AM	#3
beloveds Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 591 Senior Member	It's relatively expensive - the lower population and housing density together with a relatively large land area means the per capita cost of hardware is high. Then there is the stupid governments we've had that have made a lot of noise about improving the broadband service in the country but the dominant telecom service, TELECOM, has been playing all sorts of delaying and plainly deceptive tricks to make things hard for other companies to provide a service, let alone compete. Largely as a result, they've been delaying upgrading from ADSL to ADSL2+ except in a few areas of the larger towns - in fact, there are areas where they're restricted to either dialup or privately funded satalite services. As a result of the TELECOM intransigence, there are now several companies offering wireless 'broadband', but it's still relatively slow. As a comparison, I'm paying a total of around NZ$100 (US$65) per month* for "unlimited" up and down with a 10G limit (10G is around NZ$11 (US$7.20) pm for each additional pack - I don't d/load much so haven't gone over yet) and that is actually around 2.8Mb/s down and 780kb/s up. Some friends closer to the exchanges are getting close to the rated 8Mb/s down. *Includes line rental, land line, maintanance and $10 credit towards toll calls - which I've never gone over. I think this link should see you right with what you're enquiring about. http://broadband.t5.co.nz/ [edit] The Government is always talking about first class, world leading, etc, but to be honest, in many ways it also resembles a Third World "Banana Republic" - I guess that's due to decades of monkeys leading the country!
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