2Degrees, Vodaphone and Spark have betrayed us – regulate them now!
2Degrees, Vodaphone and Spark have betrayed us!
They sold us cheap internet on an even cheaper network.
Instead of building resilience into their systems, they have a mere 4-8hours battery system.
Just like Councils allowing Developers to build on floodplains, the Telecommunications industry have been allowed by Government to build a bullshit network with no resilience and we are paying that price right now.
The Government must immediately look an an omnibus of legislative change as we rapidly move to adaptation and one of those new focuses should be on the Telecommunications industry and force them to spend to upgrade the resilience of our communications network.
‘Fuck allowing them to do it themselves Chippy, kick them in the balls now!
Not one Radio tower was knocked out. Not one!
2Degrees was making $30million in profit in 2020 before the made a Billion dollar merger with Orcon!
Vodaphone turns over $2billion a year while Spark tuns over almost $4billlion, yet these greedy fucks can’t build resilience into a telecommunications network they have addicted us to!
FUCK THEM!
They all pay lip service to resilience but have built their empires off the back of the cheapest network possible and it has had real life real world consequences.
How the Christ did all the radio towers manage to continue operating?
We were led away from Radio as our means of communication during a disaster for the fast exciting connection of the internet yet it has failed!
Regulate now Chippy, regulate while the incandescent rage at their naked greed is this high.
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Why did the government sell it all off in the first place?
Why didn’t the government build the fibre optic network itself? The N.B.N. Co. is publicly owned.
Why is none of the equipment (or handsets) locally assembled?
90% of the public opposed the privatisation!
Haven’t they sold much of our cell phone tower network to overseas companies. Not our problem anymore they will say take it up with the Canadian teachers pension fund.
My mistake A Canadian outfit called Northleaf are part owners of our cell phone tower infrastructure.But not to worry because their mission statement is to form long term relationships based on the highest levels of openness, trust and integrity.
They should all be nationalized. It’s absurd how far behind our cellular infrastructure is compared to first world nations like France or China.
Power is the bigger problem, massive profits, reports galore about how they need to upgrade the infrastructure (aka in flood zones) but still they put it off.
In every disaster (and I’ve been in a few) the first thing to go down is the local cell phone system. This is because they employ ultra-high frequencies that are inherently short range and even if they do physically survive the initial problem, only have limited battery life.
If you want a robust means of communication, get an iridium phone.
I kept in touch during the Cyclone, with no power for 2.5 days, and same for internet, with a $20 transistor radio, running on various batteries, tuned to Radio New Zealand–no shit. We charged our phones from an EV. I gave my son a radio/torch/powerbank thingy with hand crank option a couple of christmases ago, and even he admitted to using it!
The New Gen political campaign has to be dump Rogernomics/Ruthanaisa which ever way it can be managed. The fudged accountability lines, arguments between different agencies–and their contractors–over flogged off peoples assets has to end. We need a new Ministry of Works and People’s infrastructure.
This is just one area where timidity over corporate interest versus holding them to account may well determine the next erection.
We shouldn’t forget that the supermarket duopoly and the major fuel providers are still playing silly buggers.
They seem to have forgotten various events in history.
The natives have been getting restless for 2 or 3 years now.
Que sera sera
They sold us cheap internet on an even cheaper network.
Actually @ Martyn, it wasn’t ever that cheap. The networks were and still are are. Funny thing is their customers don’t ever know what’s going on. Like going to voicemail where they assume the called subscriber is busy, when in fact there is insufficient bandwidth.
It really is a croc. There are 3rd world countries that get a better deal than in this lil ole nayshun of NuZull that punches above its weight.
But why not! The supermarkets and fuel companies are still playing silly buggers, convinced their spin meisters, marketeers and bullshit artists will see them through.
There’ll probably have to be some serious “rebranding” and “reimagining” going on before too long (in this space, going forward).
I always thought getting rid of analog communication services would be a big mistake.
Exactly the same as oil companies being allowed to hold our strategic oil reserves offshore – no multi-national company is intersted in our welfare.
Not named theTell co industry any more
Just Hell Co .