Telecom Broadband Blues
Telecom is New Zealands lines and telecommunications company, they have a complete market monopoly and wholesale internet to ISPs who then sell it to the consumer. The problem with Telecom having a monopoly is that they are lazy.
I live 10 to 15 minutes from the city of Wanganui, and Telecom have still not updated our phone exchange. Essentially this means that we can't get broadband. Pitiful isn't it. We have been calling Telecom for a long time now. In late 2004 Telecom promised to have broadband available to us by June. When it still wasn't available in July we called again, this time they promised it would be finished in six weeks. It is now January 2006 and we still cannot get broadband. All because of a lazy telecommunications company. I think Telecom needs to Get With The Program.
We have looked at satellite internet but it's just not worth it, with expensive installation, low performance and high prices.
I have talked to people who live in remote areas of Australia, sometimes up to half an hour away from small towns with populations of 10,000 or less.
Come on Telecom, Get With The Program.
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