> We are shifting house this week. > Telecom will hopefully change the phone connection to the new address on > Friday. > > My ISP tells me that Telecom will not arrange the new ADSL connection > until the new POTS line is running and then it will take up to 5 days to > reconnect ADSL. > > Service! What service? > Welcome to the quasi-monopolistic country we call New Zealand - where the government lacks the spine to do anything at all that might anger the company who (in theory) they gather the most tax from. Australia is looking better and better to me all the time at the moment (the USA actually would be my prefernce but trying to get into there is next to impossible!).
Excuse the venting but I am getting well and truely fed up with this country and the lack of brain-power in our Government.
