9th - Kaipara Konnection Weekly Newsletter - Dargaville.BIZ
9th - Kaipara Konnection Weekly Newsletter - Dargaville.BIZ
9th - Kaipara Konnection Weekly Newsletter - Dargaville.BIZ
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”<br />
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
And what did stuff.co.nz readers think of this idea? Look at the poll results.<br />
4. The Commerce Commission has done its job and recommended pricing for pairs of copper wires that Chorus<br />
supplies to Internet Service Providers to come into effect from December 2014. Screams and yells from Chorus.<br />
Consequently their share price has dropped dramatically – or as the NZ Herald article says – it has been hammered.<br />
Something is not kosher here. Chorus has already received a substantial taxpayer handout for installing fibre cables to<br />
support the Government’s Ultra Fast Broadband (UFB) initiative, and has paid it’s shareholders a dividend of $95 million<br />
dollars. If they can pay that sort of dividend why are they now saying that they may not be able to borrow money to<br />
complete the UFB initiative by the due date? What? Did they not work out the cost of the project before submitting their<br />
tender? Did they not bother to do a risk analysis?<br />
UFB is not being taken up by those who can receive it (not <strong>Dargaville</strong> or the rest of the <strong>Kaipara</strong> of course) because the<br />
“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<br />
when you can get similar results over a longer period of time and not have to “buy more” data? There is no incentive<br />
for people to change to UFB really. Most of us use the Internet to read the news, send e-mails, chat on Skype, upload<br />
pics of family events to Facebook, and of course submit the winning bid on Trade Me on something that we really, really,<br />
want but probably don’t need. Are our family video’s so important that we have to upload them in seconds rather than<br />
minutes? Don’t think so.<br />
With a poorly performing Minster of Telecommunications, who from her utterances really has no idea of what is going<br />
on, things will probably get worse before they get better. Fortunes are made on the Internet though volume sales – not<br />
FL Computers.<br />
<strong>Dargaville</strong> Four Square Discount Supermarket<br />
111 Victoria Street, <strong>Dargaville</strong> 0310 Phone: (09) 439 1083<br />
Open 7 Days<br />
122 Victoria Street. <strong>Dargaville</strong>. Phone: (09) 439 0496. E-Mail: flcomputers@xtra.co.nz