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Significant insignificant

Samuel Farrow — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:02:57 -0800

New Zealand is a backwater when it comes to high speed internet. Today the government has done something about it.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:18:12 -0800

New Zealand: High-tech socialist paradise? Only time will tell. The announcement follows months of signals from senior MPs including the Prime Minister Helen Clark and Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen that they were unhappy with broadband uptake rates, the cost and data limits. Translation: Members of Parliament thought their porn was downloading too slow.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:06:23 -0800

Great. Now even the Kiwi's have faster interwebs than us Aussies. This just fucking sucks. Screw you Howard! Screw you and that luddite Alston you put in the telecommunications portfolio for years! And screw you for appointing an incompetent hack like Helen Coonan to replace him!

By: PenDevil

PenDevil — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:35:43 -0800

You have nothing on South Africa. The fastest ADSL we can get is 1Mbps with 1 GB of data costing R65-75 (about $10). Currently I'm on a blazing fast 384 Kbps with a 3GB account for R195.00. And as another insult I have to 'rent' my ADSL line for an extra R270.00 over and above the R80.00 charge for a normal voice line. And the net result: R8 billion a year profit for our monopoly Telkom and the most expensive communications costs for regular citizens. More info at HellKom and MyBroadband. Help us Obi-Wan!

By: wilful

wilful — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:38:54 -0800

Yo effigy, read the first article?

By: Goofyy

Goofyy — Wed, 03 May 2006 04:41:15 -0800

PenDevil speaks rightly. Telkom has a competitor, of sorts, but Telkom makes sure the lines going in to the competitor are inadequate. All this in addition to power outages in Capetown, which shut down my access because I use a router there! I'm not even in the same province.

By: wildilocks

wildilocks — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:21:10 -0800

New Zealand is going to be fantastic to live in shortly, what with the Prime Minister's public acknowledgement of Peak Oil and all too. Go NZ!

By: dydecker

dydecker — Wed, 03 May 2006 05:53:30 -0800

NZ always has been fantastic to live in.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Wed, 03 May 2006 07:39:27 -0800

Hi-res pron for Kiwis NOW!

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:02:06 -0800

I have a few Kiwi friends now that have to be spending a lot of time dancing about in joy... ...yep, not a one of them will pick up the IM. Good for them.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:05:25 -0800

This New Zealand... how is their immigration policy?

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Wed, 03 May 2006 09:35:47 -0800

Restrictive.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Wed, 03 May 2006 13:39:30 -0800

Yeah, I did. It showed in 2005 we finally managed to beat NZ. I suspect when (if) this page is updated to take account of the news in the 2nd article for 2006, my statement will still hold true.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Wed, 03 May 2006 14:53:49 -0800

IronLizard: http://www.immigration.govt.nz/.

By: wilful

wilful — Wed, 03 May 2006 17:03:24 -0800

Now even the Kiwi's have faster interwebs than us Aussies. It showed in 2005 we finally managed to beat NZ. Which one? My internet connection is faste enough and cheap enough for me. And it doesn't rely on telstra at all.

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Wed, 03 May 2006 21:19:27 -0800

I'm in Auckland, and I'm delighted about this news. We have a 3.5Mbps ADSL connection, 30GB international per month. Unlimited national. The only change I'd like to see is to get less A in the ADSL, it's got a ludicrous 128Kbps upstream speed.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 04 May 2006 13:02:40 -0800

Stop bragging you Kiwi bastard! I kid, I kid. Peace and love and all that.