[TelstraClear] TCL talks about 100 Mbs potential for Wellington

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#33252 4-May-2009 21:06

Seen on Stuff and in the DomPost

TCL 100Mbs for Capital

I wish but I doubt if mere mortals could afford it and/or we reach our caps 10x faster :)

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#212269 4-May-2009 22:15

This sounds like mere politics. They're just trying to convince the Govt not to "intrude" on their cable network. Though, given how long it will be before FTTH actually arrives, one would hope that TCL will have upgraded their network by then...

Not to mention the no-doubt extortionate price they would charge - the Chch 25Mbps plan is ridiculous enough!

Edit: Just thought I'd add this:

Telstraclear, put up, or shut up.

Oh, and your poor cable network "might be threatened" by Government subsidised FTTH? Oh no! You aren't guaranteed an indefinite return on your investments. The country doesn't owe you anything. If FTTH can deliver a service (which will be better than anything DOCSIS X could ever offer) for a cheaper price than your cable network can, then boo hoo. It's competition. Oh, and just perhaps the FTTH program wouldn't have been started if companies such as yourself actually delivered world-class broadband in the first place.

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#212293 4-May-2009 22:45

They should concentrate on getting HD video before faster internet imho.

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#212353 5-May-2009 06:50

Excuse me for being cynical, but Telstra really shouldn't talk about future/possible upgrades when we're still waiting for all their recent promises to be fulfilled... (25mpbs in Wellington, PVR, ???)

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#212599 5-May-2009 18:17

amanzi: Excuse me for being cynical, but Telstra really shouldn't talk about future/possible upgrades when we're still waiting for all their recent promises to be fulfilled... (25mpbs in Wellington, PVR, ???)

Exactly. I don't think TelstraClear has kept a single promise, ever. And that's no exaggeration. I literally cannot think of anything they have promised over the years that hasn't been delayed by an absurd amount of time / indefinitely, and/or ended up being far less than what was promised.

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#212697 5-May-2009 22:18

This may not be that important to some customers, but here's another broken Telstra promise... On the following page they said there would be a new weather channel on the 1st May, but it's still not there. http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/digital-tv/whats-new.cfm

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#212797 6-May-2009 10:26

Perhaps a name change from TelstraClear to TelstraUnclear or TelstraVague would help us to better understand the promises made.

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#212907 6-May-2009 17:34

amanzi: This may not be that important to some customers, but here's another broken Telstra promise... On the following page they said there would be a new weather channel on the 1st May, but it's still not there. http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/residential/inhome/digital-tv/whats-new.cfm

Few probs with that one ;) Goes live this Friday, 8 May.

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#214043 11-May-2009 10:23

lchiu hit it on the head. 100Mbps is fine, but if you're still capped at xxGb, all that's going to happen is that you hit your cap faster.

It's pretty rare that I find downloads too slow - and when they are, I have my doubts that it's the last hop across the TCL network that's the bottleneck. Given the choice between doubling my bandwidth and doubling my traffic, I know which I'd pick right now.