On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Joe Abley wrote:
I have (finally! gods be praised!) a cable modem here for which I pay CAD 45/month (a shade under NZD 70) for unlimited traffic. I've clocked it at 4Mbit/s towards me, and 256kbit/s up. This in a country with a lower population density than New Zealand (although clearly much, much closer to the US).
Sigh.
I don't think that this means anything. Things cost differently in different countries. Kiwifruit is expensive here, for example.
And come to think of it, contrary to Chris' claim, lots of things are cheaper here than in richer, more densely populated countries. Petrol, cars, houses, electricity, food, drink, heaps of things. It's what the market can bear to pay, I suppose.
However, if I was living a little closer to town and not out in the country, I'd have a choice of three or four DSL providers, plus any number of other ISPs reselling one of those DSL providers' access service. Plus dial, plus cable, plus high-speed-return satellite, plus two-way satellite, plus a wireless provider. Plus two mobitex networks, three CDMA networks and two GPRS networks.
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