What, in the name of Inanna, is wrong with this country's mobile data?

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#3287639 29-Sep-2024 15:22

ThatPrettyFreya:

We can easily use 20+GB of mobile data in a month

Considered storing some of that music locally? E.g. on-device?

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#3287642 29-Sep-2024 15:36

@decibel

Heh. Why compete, when you can tear every dollar out of everyone's pockets, collaboratively? MSD benefit recipients? Ah, don't worry about them, they don't hate every price increase because it takes more out of their fixed income or anything.

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#3287643 29-Sep-2024 15:45

ThatPrettyFreya:

@Jase2985

Check the speedtest we posted earlier in the thread. That was badass and we loved it. Miss it, too

one speedtest does not back up your claims, my claim disproves yours so.....

NZ is yet to introduce the faster 5G even so we still get pretty good speeds, in far more places

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#3287644 29-Sep-2024 15:48

@Jase2985

Dunno what you want us to say, but we don't know if we've ever seen ess than 40Mbit/sec on T-Mobile, we regularly see less than that on One and Spark

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#3287646 29-Sep-2024 16:11

I agree, NZ is generally more expensive than other countries and there are many things it doen't do well.
But there are pluses and I would rather live here than many other places.
(and their are many places I could live that are better but I won't move for personal reasons.)

However cheap mobile is possible. I am paying $17 a month for 15G data per month, unlimited calls and texts to NZ and Aussie.
(Kogan on 40% birthday deal -uses the One nextwork)

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#3287647 29-Sep-2024 16:14

@KrazyKid

We were a dumbass and are stuck on a Spark plan with a phone we're paying off, so that sucks. And that doubly sucks, cause sure we could move to Kogan, but then we wouldn't be able to get new phones in a way anyone on MSD can

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#3287648 29-Sep-2024 16:24

do you not have a home/work internet connection you can use, so you don'tm need to use so much data via mobile? 95 % of all the data on my phone is via wifi

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ThatPrettyFreya

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#3287650 29-Sep-2024 16:27

@Jase2985

Sure we do, though that's..... also 5g, due to this apartment not having fiber, for reasons. Honestly that makes us more mad; they can give us preoprly unlimited, super-fast 5G as a home product, but not as a mobile one? Do the words "pointless artificial market segmentation" and "if you really needed to restrict these routers to one address, that says more about your inability to manage your own network than anything else" ring true to any yall? Cause they sure do to us.

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#3287651 29-Sep-2024 16:31

One NZ: Here you go, fiber-like 5G you can pull 4TB over, but don't move the router or we'll cut you off, for reasons. That'll be $78 please. Data caps? Oh, no, we don't have those.

Also One NZ: Mobile? What is this mo-bi-le you speak of? Ah, for the portable telephones, we see, yes, they do data now, of course, we were only just informed. Give us $80 and you will get 40GB, which is "seriously heaps", and you can use it anywhere! Oh, yeah, and if you go over that we'll slow you down to 1.2Mbps.

"Seriously Heaps"? Disclaimer we don't remember if that was One NZ or 2degrees, sounds more like a 2degrees thing to be honest. Goddess, nobody talks like that anymore!

And also.... 40GB data being a lot, oh sweet, summer children, let us tell you of the days of Optus, when this one was in Australia, and we burned through 300GB on phone use and tethering... um, in 3 weeks. Yeah. So.....

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#3287652 29-Sep-2024 16:36

and yes, we are getting mad about the overuse of kiwiisms in especially telco branding / messaging, especially when it's kiwiisms from years, possibly decades ago. We have not heard a single person say "that's heaps!" or similar things in well over a decade

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#3287654 29-Sep-2024 17:01

ThatPrettyFreya:

and yes, we are getting mad about the overuse of kiwiisms in especially telco branding / messaging, especially when it's kiwiisms from years, possibly decades ago. We have not heard a single person say "that's heaps!" or similar things in well over a decade

@ThatPrettyFreya Are you really bored??

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#3287661 29-Sep-2024 17:25

@Linux

Yes. Very bored, and brain full of spiders. This thread started out as a thing and it ended up just being a bitchfest. Sorry, yall

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#3287663 29-Sep-2024 17:47

ThatPrettyFreya:

@Jase2985

Sure we do, though that's..... also 5g, due to this apartment not having fiber, for reasons. Honestly that makes us more mad; they can give us preoprly unlimited, super-fast 5G as a home product, but not as a mobile one? Do the words "pointless artificial market segmentation" and "if you really needed to restrict these routers to one address, that says more about your inability to manage your own network than anything else" ring true to any yall? Cause they sure do to us.

Your comments show you clearly have no idea how fixed wireless and mobile products work. you can work out capacity on towers with fixed wireless products, and insure you dont overload the towers to make everyone have a good experience.

The wireless spectrum is finite, if you let everyone have unlimited products, everyone ends up with a bad experience.

You ultimately want most people to do most of their heavy downloading/consumption on a fixed line product, as there is way more bandwidth available. And use wireless products for the on occasion downloads/consumption etc.

You can't compare NZ to the US, different markets, different technology, different pretty much everything.

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#3287664 29-Sep-2024 17:48

ThatPrettyFreya:
this. This is $29 a month. And properly unlimited, as in pull hundreds of gigs over it. Catch up, NZ: https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/5879705833

You can achieve close to 1.1gbps DL and 150mbps up on one of One NZs cell site if you're close and it's the right time of night on 5G.

Now that figure translates to 45 NZ dollarydoos but let's be real. We're a remote location and international traffic isn't cheap. More so One NZ is the second cheapest provider that allows unlimited hotspot(mighty ape takes the crown, same network and off shore support at $5 less) and as much as I have a lot of flak I could say across all 3 providers (cause I have been with all 3, currently with 2D and quite unhappy but no choice right now). We have it lucky and we're fortunate. The USA is not comparable in anyway to our own little country and nor is any other country.

The only winning argument is that prepay is expensive for what it is and even going up in post pay plans makes a few people squirm with their wallets tightening.

Linux was a little bit sarcastic when he said build your own network and whilst I'd like a 4th competitor (wink wink), building a network from scratch is very hard and so is undercutting when there's no incentive at the beginning. 2degrees had it very hard.

Ramblings from a mysterious lady who's into tech. Warning I may often create zingers.

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#3287688 29-Sep-2024 17:57

https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/6013610540

Example of a Speedtest I can get on my OneNZ 5g connection.

Keep in mind this was before they reserved that 5mhz of b3 bandwidth for Starlink sat to cell. Somehow they managed to screw up carrier aggregation when they removed that 5mhz of b3 from all the towers in my area so now I'm lucky to hit 600-700 down.

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