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Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
rhy7s: Maybe there's something that's popular on demand at those times.
Re: the cost argument. I suppose it will be considered infrastructure at some point, our roads out here certainly wouldn't be making a profit, let alone breaking even on rates collected but the whole network is more valuable with the last mile available. The same thing with public transport, if you keep pulling back from the routes that don't turn a profit, you lose the network of networks in the lost connections. Whether universal participation on the net is to be valued is probably an ideological point at the moment, but with UFB on one end and plenty of places around here still on dialup), there does seem to be a mirror of other social disparities developing.
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Talkiet: Sheesh guys - you have to remember that some of these places will literally NEVER turn a profit even with the equipment already in them.
Is it reasonable (for example) to expect ANYONE (except perhaps govt) to spend maybe $150k to upgrade something when the lifetime revenue wouldn't even approach that? Let alone lifetime profit?
Cheers - N
NZCrusader: [snip]
Please note all comments are from my own brain and don't necessarily represent the position or opinions of my employer, previous employers, colleagues, friends or pets.
NZCrusader:Talkiet: Sheesh guys - you have to remember that some of these places will literally NEVER turn a profit even with the equipment already in them.
Is it reasonable (for example) to expect ANYONE (except perhaps govt) to spend maybe $150k to upgrade something when the lifetime revenue wouldn't even approach that? Let alone lifetime profit?
Cheers - N
That is a fantastic excuse.
Even better proves why Telecom should not have been sold off, as it was paid for by the tax payer and hence should have the tax payers best interests at heart, rather than just profit...
At the least, I think it is reasonable to provide sufficient backhaul to enable a decent ADSL1 speed.
Time to find a new industry!
NZCrusader:Talkiet: Sheesh guys - you have to remember that some of these places will literally NEVER turn a profit even with the equipment already in them.
Is it reasonable (for example) to expect ANYONE (except perhaps govt) to spend maybe $150k to upgrade something when the lifetime revenue wouldn't even approach that? Let alone lifetime profit?
Cheers - N
That is a fantastic excuse.
Even better proves why Telecom should not have been sold off, as it was paid for by the tax payer and hence should have the tax payers best interests at heart, rather than just profit...
At the least, I think it is reasonable to provide sufficient backhaul to enable a decent ADSL1 speed.
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Perhaps my argument is not fair, but unless you have actually been stuck on one of these things (anything ADSL1) then you have no idea of the crap performance they are delivering these days, and just how infuriating this is.
I am not talking about keeping up with UFB in terms of throughput, but actually talking about speed degradation.
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