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    Up yours ya arrogant Telecom bast*rds

    Mr Campbells TV poll just now, just rated Telecoms broadband service a complete dog.

    96% of NZer's polled said their service had declined since the "max speed" debacle, a mere 4% said it was better

    96% !!!!!!

    They cannot argue with this, they cannot say it's "isolated", they cannot push it back on us and say it's something we're doing.

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    The 4% is probably Telecom employees made to ring up from their call centre to attempt to make the company look good

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    Margin of error +/- 4%.

    Incidentally, I have Telstraclear's high speed internet, and am very happy with it.

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    hahahahahahaha

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    Urgh... lies, damn lies, and statistics...

    The 2006 census of New Zealand shows 4,143,279 residents, can I assume from your post that approximately 3,977,547 people called in against Telecom? Seems like something that might have been noticed earlier...

    Or, more logically, could it just be that 96% of the people that called in actually have an issue with Xtra, and that those who don't have an issue couldn't be bothered?

    If you go into a shop and buy a coffee and it's just a coffee, you walk off and drink it, if you go in and buy a coffee and it's cold, you go back and complain. Perhaps 1 in 10 people might remark that it was a good coffee. Now if you stood at the counter in that coffee house and remarked on all the people that came up, what would you see?

    Can you get where I'm going with this?

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    my DSL has always been kinda shit. It'll go sweet for a day or two at best and then i have apparently 'blown the bandwidth' which is bullshit because i only go to a select few websites (cached images etC) and watch a video or two in that time... hardly the 5gig download cap that we have.
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    i went "go large" and its sloooooooooooooooooooow but i couldnt be arsed texting 55cents to tv3

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    have had 3.5 mbs for the last 9 months, has DEFF slowed down on average in the last 3-4 months !!
    we are all nuts we just dont know it !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasel View Post
    Urgh... lies, damn lies, and statistics...


    Or, more logically, could it just be that 96% of the people that called in actually have an issue with Xtra, and that those who don't have an issue couldn't be bothered?
    In addition, don't TV3 charge a dollar or something to vote in this poll. Unless you feel VERY strongly I would suggest most people would not be arsed to spend a dollar on a stupid Capbell poll

    So much more democratic and useful to make them free but then they would probably need another 10 minutes of ads to pay the bills

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasel View Post

    Can you get where I'm going with this?
    Nope, because in this case it isn't valid.

    Telecom created this issue deliberately to demonstrate how an unregulated environment would look and made NZ Internet users pay to use a substandard Internet feed.

    The fact of the matter is that NZ's Telecommunications Infrastructure can't handle an "unlimited" Internet connection for even a small percentage of Internet users. Not only that Telecom had the cheek to sell an inferior product and when people used it as it was advertised, those people were invited to use a more expensive product with apparently lesser capabilities, but in actuality better throughput capacity, but at a much greater cost.

    If you sampled every user using this product you would probably end up with 80% dissatisfied/20% satisfied split. It won't be any better than that. Every geek friend of mine who signed up for it has since dumped it and gone elsewhere, and I'm talking geeks with a couple of decades of gaming and PC fiddling behind them.

    It's tosh. It doesn't work as advertised and in a lot of cases it has ended up being a downgrade in actual connected speed, both down and up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Weasel View Post
    Can you get where I'm going with this?
    Yes, but I have a major issue with Telebum's service, and want to vent.

    btw... its 96% of those polled, which would have all been "brodband" users, so these are the target market. 96% of NZ does not have broadband. Tsk tsk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimjim View Post
    i went "go large" and its sloooooooooooooooooooow but i couldnt be arsed texting 55cents to tv3
    55 cents not $1 like I wrote then ... I was too slow typing my response

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    Telecom created this issue deliberately to demonstrate how an unregulated environment would look and made NZ Internet users pay to use a substandard Internet feed.

    The fact of the matter is that NZ's Telecommunications Infrastructure can't handle an "unlimited" Internet connection for even a small percentage of Internet users.
    It's been known in this country for some time that the phone network is underdeveloped, reasons being that New Zealand just isn't big enough to generate the sums that need to be put into the network to bring it into line with the rest of the world. When comparing broadband availabilty and speed Helen Clark compares NZ to places such as Korea, USA, UK etc... when in reality with the amount of money to spend on these services perhaps it would be better to compare NZ with some of the medium developed nations such as places in africa of southern america.

    Not only that Telecom had the cheek to sell an inferior product and when people used it as it was advertised, those people were invited to use a more expensive product with apparently lesser capabilities, but in actuality better throughput capacity, but at a much greater cost.

    If you sampled every user using this product you would probably end up with 80% dissatisfied/20% satisfied split. It won't be any better than that. Every geek friend of mine who signed up for it has since dumped it and gone elsewhere, and I'm talking geeks with a couple of decades of gaming and PC fiddling behind them.

    It's tosh. It doesn't work as advertised and in a lot of cases it has ended up being a downgrade in actual connected speed, both down and up.
    Whilst it's clear there are issues with the Go Large plan in particular, the root cause has yet to be identified by all accounts, the NZ population I am sure will show their dissatisfaction in ways they always have, by complaining a lot and not doing a whole lot about it.

    Quote Originally Posted by kro View Post
    btw... its 96% of those polled, which would have all been "brodband" users, so these are the target market. 96% of NZ does not have broadband. Tsk tsk.

    Yeh, I'll give ya that one

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    The fact of the matter is that NZ's Telecommunications Infrastructure can't handle an "unlimited" Internet connection for even a small percentage of Internet users.
    Yep. Telecom knew it. The industry knew it. Hell, even a good percentage of the users knew it. Unleashed was always going to be a fuck up. Easy to blame Telecom seeing as they have 'control' over the system... but don't be too deceived...

    Multinationals have had a pretty big arm stirring this pot. They want in. Rather than spending money and winning market share with superior service/product, they've (quite cleverly imho) made Telecom out to be bigger dicks than usual. This is how they're going to get in, and get in they will... but we'll still be getting the same old shit, perhaps marginally better. I wonder if these new players are going to spend up large on the infrastructure we need to even get our current expectations met, or they'll just plunder us for the profit they can whilst generally letting the situation stay the same old crap?

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