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Originally posted by GastonJ@Mar 21 2005, 12:54 AM
I'm not actually in New Zealand, but have been looking round for a friend who lives just outside New Plymouth. They can't get aDSL where they are, close to the exchange, Telecom claim they have the wrong cables and have no plans to replace them. If you ask me Telecom need a severe kicking, but as I said, I'm not there so I can't.
Anyway is there any chance of wireless in the New Plymouth area at all? Anyone thinking of starting one up?
Cheers,
GastonJ
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Telecom are cutting back on maintenance of the copper network while they focus on fibre to the curb, which will decentralise a lot of their legacy exchanges, increase redundancy, increase consistency, increase capacity... the list goes on. Telecom needs to do this because they want to corner the VoIP market, and provide TVoDSL to compete with Telstra's CableTV offerings, that and the copper network is costing more than it's worth to maintain.
ANYWAY, your friend has options: BCL (expensive) or to setup a wireless link to someone nearby who can get DSL, then they can share the cost of the internet connection.
No-one is listed here for NP:
http://nodedb.com/newzealand/ni/ but I do recall some rumblings about it once upon a time... a google might reveal something...