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Sigh. So Xtra is still spinning that yarn? I followed up on it, after reading a post here on GZ that pointed to an Xtra page that blamed the introduction, no sorry, re-introduction of unconstrained plans... actually, they were never removed, were they? for the slowdown on Telecom's DSL network.
The response from Telecom:
We're monitoring it now; it looks like the actual experience is, better than the prediction for most customers.
Right. No surprise there, because while Telecom unlike other telcos around the world didn't implement an interference management plan when they built the DSL network, there was no evidence that higher bit-rates would turn things into to custard from an electrical point of view.
Furthermore, the dire predictions of people who now have broadband not getting it anymore, or new customers not being able to get it, turned out to be wrong as well:
At this stage we don't know of any customers that can no longer get Broadband at all.
I think it's high time for Xtra to stop talking rubbish.
The problem with Go Large is that the plan is wildly popular, far more so than Xtra expected. A while ago, I heard the connection into Telecom's core network is simply a 10Mbit/s half-duplex coax circuit, which unsurprisingly enough isn't sufficient to provide the kind of broadband experience customers could reasonably expect.
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