On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 15:14, Don Gould - BVC wrote: > Perhaps the uni needs to look at getting involved with the community > wireless thing that I see is happening here in Christchurch to provide > a bit of competition and give Telecom some reason to think a bit > harder?! Wireless is an option that the University is considering.
> Telstra seem to be able to provide free mirror sites for all the major > distro stuff to all it's broadband customers in Australia. Yes, but there are more people to amortise the cost over in .au than .nz. Add to that the added cost of installing, maintaining and operating the additional submarine cables, and it accounts for a lot of the difference in price. Yea, yea: Telecom evil and so is Telstra. Beat the evil empires and lay your own submarine cable :) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
