I recently heard that Chorus has a ~4% uptake (of those able to get it) which is actually better than, for example, Australia's NBN.
I am unable to sign up yet but before I would I think I would like to know more about what my money would buy. For example, I'd like my ISP to publish frequently updated or live congestion maps of their network.
Currently up a longer shared driveway in a rental property and likely to be moving in 6 months or so.
I am working towards getting it installed anyway but I have to contend with angry neighbors who we do not get along with overly well and an absent LL and unhelpful property manager.
For me, the question wasn't "why?", but more "why not?". There really wasn't any reason for us not to. It didn't cost us anything, it is actually a little bit cheaper with the ISP switch. The install was pretty painless, Chorus had the spare time so stretched the install over several days - meaning that we didn't need to be home for most of it. I really don't see why someone will be compelled to not switch, the subsidy is at the point where there really isn't much of a cost of doing it. Yeah, the speed increase is marginal as most sites are hosted beyond narrow international bandwidth - but it is really awesome to be pulling a torrent down at 11 megabytes per second!!!!!!
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