| EricHiggin said: Well when your leaders are willing to stagnate the economy and piss off the people by putting them even deeper in debt, by paying exorbitant amounts to have renewable energy installed as fast as possible no matter the cost, all while giving away billions to other countries to help them do the same, ya, it's pretty sad. Then on top of it, when hydro rates go through the roof because of it, they tell you that's just the cost of 'saving the world'. (We actually grew a spine for a second and complained enough that they gave decent discounts for now, but it really is just pushing back the price hike until after the next election, just by chance). |
Spoken like a true conservative.
| EricHiggin said: As socialist and Canada can be, it's the opposite in terms of capitalism in some ways actually. Especially when it comes to communications. The few big corporations call the shots and do whatever they can to stop the smaller guys, and they mostly get away with it. |
We had the same issue. Telstra dictated the terms of the industry and was very profit driven.
They would even lock other companies out of certain geographical areas because they owned everything.
Then we got a left-wing government who decided they were sick of that status quo... Bought our infrastructure back... And then decided to build the NBN. - Then we got a conservative government in who changed everything and fucked it up... But it's still leagues better than it used to be... But the base principle remain.
...And that is... No longer does a single company like Telstra own everything from top to bottom, from the telephone exchange to the modem sitting on your desk to the mobile towers... Everyone is now on an equal playing field pretty much.
And we are now seeing lots of small providers pop up which is great.
And we wouldn't have gone through all this bullshit if the previous conservative government didn't sell our telecommunications off in the first place.
| EricHiggin said: What makes no sense is instead of charging considerably more for the faster and more reliable infrastructure being installed, and using that to offset the cost of laying kms of line for only a handful of homes, or installing worthy high speed wireless towers, they offer the new systems for even cheaper with higher caps. |
Vast countries like Australia, Canada etc' cannot really afford to sit around and expect a company to do this... It is bad business sense so shit will stagnate.
The Government really does need to intervene.
| EricHiggin said: The fiber nearby has a min buy in of 40mbps down and 5.0mbps up, for $50 a month, with a 500GB data cap, or $60 a month for unlimited. |
The irony is... I am still on half century old copper.
| EricHiggin said: A lot of people in the rural area's are locked into wireless internet around here, which is typically around 2.0mbps down and 0.5mbps up for $60 a month, unlimited. Some are stuck with satellite, and pay around $80 a month for 20mbps down and 1mbps up, with a 250GB data cap, but it varies a lot and anytime near peak period, it usually hovers around 5.0mbps down. |
We rolled out fixed wireless here for the outskirts of the town that happily hits 50Mbps down with unlimited data caps, fantastic technology for rural areas.
There is a small caveat that when it rains, that signal does degrade... But considering this is the driest state on the driest Continent in the world, it's not a big drama I guess.
| DonFerrari said: Economies of scale and profit margins won't lie. They will put more money where they will win it, doesn't matter how off or worse is in other areas of the region. |
Government needs to intervene, inject some cash and infrastructure... Then let the market handle the rest, it's worked here, so should work there.
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