I am wondering if this is just what i have misheard from a few clients of ours
Farmside have bought tuaropaki communications, and are trying to pressure all tuaropaki customers into contracts to get them to switch to farmside's ipstar satelite system.
Because these are technologically illeterate rural folk, they never seem to be able to relay the phone discussions to me correctly so i cant figure out if its true or not.
I think one client said they had to leave them because the farmside dish wouldnt work because of trees (its on a lower angle to the horizon than their old tuaropaki dish)
I had another client in a similar situation call and ask what to do because they are also with tuaropaki dont want to be forced into signing a 12 month contract when they paid over $1k for the tuaropaki installation and its been working fine for a number of years.
It seems absolutley stupid that farmside would be willing to buy a company and its subscriber base, then cull off a number of these customers. I only have a small group of rural people that i talk to so i am thinking its probably going to affect a large number of people.