I do agree with Dean that we know you can't reasonably expect multiple nines of reliability from a residential service, but we, as geeks, have far different expectations from the average consumer. Plus, with NZ's high incidence of home-based businesses, how many users have actually had ANY choice of carrier until quite recently? I can probably get Woosh at home, and we have a Telecom landline. What are my other choices? TCL is still delivering over TCNZ's cable, so that's a non-starter. I could maybe get hooked into Vector's fibre, though I don't think it comes quite far enough down Great South Rd. And I'm in a better position than a lot of residential users, who can't get Woosh and aren't even close to someone's fibre network.
Well written. I think there is a big market need for something that is better then consumer grade ADSL, delivered over copper to be widely available, and cheaper then outdated often unreliable Frame Relay. An ISP could charge a premium for this service. Nowhere in any of my previous posts did I ask for something as cheap as consumer grade ADSL - despite a few replies complaining it can't be done, we don't make enough yada yada, I didn't actually state that it had to be as chaep as Jetsream. Bring on LLU - 2 to 3 years from now I think we'll be talking about a different landscape.