Zuricka Azavedo wrote:
Hi All
I am studying for my masters at AIS St. Helens. My research focuses on E-Commerce proliferation in the Wine Industry. Most companies that I have spoken with are outside Auckland and seem to suggest that the Internet connection speeds available to them are too slow to even effectively browse the Internet let alone host E-Commerce websites.
What are they using? Modems? Dedicated circuits?
Is it true that there are absolutely no connectivity issues anywhere in New Zealand, or is it Vice Versa ?
:::stifling a giggle:::
Is it that higher speed telco circuits outside Auckland and Wellington are available but not affordable to most Small Businesses
You can get almost any sort of connection you want, but outside the CBDs of the major population centres, you'll pay loadsamoney. Even for normal phone connections, as evidenced in Telecom's latest move. That said, it's a bit unrealistic for for people in remote rural areas to expect cheap, high-speed Internet connections, as today's technology is expensive to deploy and maintain. This is no different from accepting that if you live hundreds of kilometers away from wherever you need to go, your transportation bills will be higher. The "rich townies vs exploited bucolics" argument is a canard.
Can anyone please shed some light on this issue ?
Also my research guide suggests that perhaps the vision of NZ being totally online and E-Commerce driven is being fuelled only by technical people who are less than 5% on the population. Is this true
You need to look into the technical side of this issue, to understand what's possible and what isn't, and then compare it to the commercial reality. It's not that hard, but it involves reading through a fair bit of documents. Beware of official statistics though, as I've yet to see a compiler of these who has bothered to actually check the figures and facts derived from elsewhere for accuracy. -- Juha Saarinen - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog