NonprayingMantis:

quickymart:

codyc1515:

quickymart: Nope, no one else does - and every situation is far to different to just apply a blanket discount.

Seriously, 2 Mb/s isn't exactly dialup speed or anything - there are a LOT of rural customers out there who love to even just get 512k.

See Finland for example, they have just over 5 million in population, and they have a Human Right to have a broadband connection of at least 1 MB/s now and 100 Mb/s by 2015.

Telecom seems to have little care for rural customers, yet they seem to monopolize the market.
A lose-lose situation really.

See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html

Completely different country, different population distribution, different topography/geography...

actually finland has quite a similar geography and population distribution to NZ.
(lots of other stuff is very different though)