[wellylug] New prices for TelstraClear Cable

Tim Nicholas tim at nicholas.net.nz
Wed Mar 3 11:04:46 NZDT 2004


On 03/03/04 10:46, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> Tim Nicholas wrote:
> 
>>
>> What you seem to be saying - in a fine comedic way - is that we have 
>> unreasonable expectations. I don't think that is the case. We can 
>> easily depress ourselves by looking at various overseas Internet 
>> industries who offer basically what we want. "But Tim, we aren't 
>> overseas!" Sure, that's  true, but there aren't a any good enough 
>> differences between our situations and those overseas to justify how 
>> the industry here behaves. I would be very interested to know the 
>> profit margin differences between various different countries with 
>> regard to broadband. I expect that in NZ the telcos are making much 
>> more/mb than they are overseas.
>>
>> If there is significant demand for a product (and there is) and there 
>> is a precedent of that product being commercially viable (and there 
>> is) then having an expectation that it should be available doesn't 
>> seem unreasonable or particularly unrealistic.
>>
>> Tim
>>
> Whoops, I didn't mean to start a flame war. I just intended this for 
> informational purposes as many WellyLUGers do alot of downloading and 
> this is relevent to us.
> 
> I do agree with some of the comments though. There is a need for a lower 
> speed / lower cost service where you don't have to worry about having an 
> unexpected bill for overused traffic when your teenager works out how to 
> download music videos at a rate of 1GB/hour
> 
> 



No flame war here... :-)

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