On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Not at all.
Before I left New Zealand I had Jetscream. Aside from a couple of annoying outages it worked pretty well and the cost seemed reasonable compared to the alternatives in my price bracket.
I thought you had Jetstart?
In some respects that is a choice you have to make, just like the bigger picture I claimed with regards to New Zealand being a nice place to live --- if you were to move the the CBD your options would perhaps be greater and the price you pay even lower.
Sure; if I emigrate to just about any first world country, I'd have an even better choice. That, however, isn't a realistic option, for obvious reasons.
Sounds like you've got a rotten deal there. Anyway, that's not ADSL, it's a dedicated circuit. In Auckland CBD, I understand you can get 2-10Mbps links for NZ$1,000 to $1,200 a month (DDS and UN fibre), all-you-can-eat.
That's $3200NZD/month --- assume you use a good percentage of that capacity, say 80% of it. The carrier can then sell (say) 27 of those per STM1. That's $3M NZD/year for everything.
No, it's between NZ$1,000 and $1,200 a month, charged out to the customer. Unless I'm totally mistaken, 12 * 1,200 * 27 works out as NZ$388,800 per annum.
Talk to another carrier. Even in Devonport there are alternatives.
Would love to hear of some, actually. Drawn a blank so far. -- Juha Take off every sig! - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog