On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 07:02 , Chris Wedgwood wrote:
Let me see... $800USD for the circuit to our apartment. It probably handles about 500MB/traffic per day[1], often less. Thats about 5.3c/MB (US) or about 13c/MB (NZD).
Now, that's ball park with what people in NZ pay
Not really -- price yourself half an E1 in New Zealand with IP transit over it, and see how that compares. 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). I don't think that this means anything. Things cost differently in different countries. Kiwifruit is expensive here, for example. 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. So regardless of the cost of things, there is definitely more choice in little old London, Ontario, than there is in the much larger centre of Auckland, NZ. That's what I think I would be upset about, if I was still living in Auckland. There are some benefits to having a choice. Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog