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freitasm:harrylin: Why does china telecom has enough capacity to offer 160 million Chinese citizens unlimited broadband access for 70 dollars (15 nz dollars), but why tnz or tcl or voda doesnt have enough capacity to offer 4 million nz people unlimited broadband access?? Most of my mates in china download about 4 to 6 gig a day from their broadband, because everybody there does live tv streaming and movie streaming for the whole day.
Think about it... How much content Americans get from overseas? Not much. How much content Chinese get from overseas? Not much. How much content New Zealanders get from overseas? A lot.
It just costs more here. However telcos should be working with content providers to offer options. For example Google offers to colocate caches for their content services. In return they get free peering bandwidth (or did you think Google is good all the time?).
People talking about "unlimited" Internet should really examine all aspects of the problem, not only the "other countries off unlimited, we don't have it here".
Well I am not too concerned with unlimited internet though of course it would be nice. I am just concerned at the prices of our current data. Maybe we can't get it as cheap as our friends overseas but we aren't even anywhere close. Considering vodafone are able to offer 3gigs for promotions etc I am sure they are creaming it with their current data plans. The whole argument of us being isolated and our traffic coming mainly from the states I am sure does add extra cost but not to the extend of what we are being charged I think. The same happened with adsl etc when prices used to be horrific.. Then the prices tumbled and now we have some decent plans around telecom offering a managed unlimited plan. I am sure if that can be done then its possible via the cell networks also, doesnt have to be unlimited just more reasonable :)
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