As someone who lives in the Far North, and who is lucky enough to have an ADSL2 connection,
I am also the Secretary for our local A&P Association. In this regard, I feel almost spoiled as
a few of our members don't have electricity, much less a dial up connection.
For these people, the "thrill" of the internet is visiting a neighbour once a week to check
on email from son/daughter in Europe on the big OE.
These are the "last mile" people in all regards e.g. power, phone and roading.
And yet, they pay their rates, their taxes, and the Fonterra truck(mostly) is able
to take their milk away to add to the export pool.
The roll out of fibre means nothing to these people, and since they are "last mile"
people, it probably never will.
At least they don't miss what they never had.

Something to ponder over your next latte while checking email on the iPod/Pad
via the cafe wifi.

Alan Maher

On 4/08/2014 12:02 p.m., Jonathan Brewer wrote:

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Tony Wicks <tony@wicks.co.nz> wrote:

The technology has done its dash, and the customers need to move on now. I still have customers who have dial up configured despite having ADSL as they have not got an Ethernet card in their old PC. These people have to be forced to change, or they never will.

Go tell that to the 10k+ households who get their telephone service via CMAR and don't have the $2k installation fee for satellite. Really, I'd like to hear that conversation.

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