9th - Kaipara Konnection Weekly Newsletter - Dargaville.BIZ

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And what did stuff.co.nz readers think of this idea? Look at the poll results.
4. The Commerce Commission has done its job and recommended pricing for pairs of copper wires that Chorus
supplies to Internet Service Providers to come into effect from December 2014. Screams and yells from Chorus.
Consequently their share price has dropped dramatically – or as the NZ Herald article says – it has been hammered.
Something is not kosher here. Chorus has already received a substantial taxpayer handout for installing fibre cables to
support the Government’s Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative, and has paid it’s shareholders a dividend of $95 million
dollars. If they can pay that sort of dividend why are they now saying that they may not be able to borrow money to
complete the UFB initiative by the due date? What? Did they not work out the cost of the project before submitting their
tender? Did they not bother to do a risk analysis?
UFB is not being taken up by those who can receive it (not Dargaville or the rest of the Kaipara of course) because the
“plans” are simply not cost effective. Why would you want to pay for a monthly data cap which you can use up in a week
when you can get similar results over a longer period of time and not have to “buy more” data? There is no incentive
for people to change to UFB really. Most of us use the Internet to read the news, send e-mails, chat on Skype, upload
pics of family events to Facebook, and of course submit the winning bid on Trade Me on something that we really, really,
want but probably don’t need. Are our family video’s so important that we have to upload them in seconds rather than
minutes? Don’t think so.
With a poorly performing Minster of Telecommunications, who from her utterances really has no idea of what is going
on, things will probably get worse before they get better. Fortunes are made on the Internet though volume sales – not
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