OK, I'm going to have a wine about the Internet. Well, more about the telephone company who provides the service (there's an oxymoron for a start) to our locale. We live in rural NZ, and Telecom, who've had a monopoly since the far-sighted NZ govt sold the system off some years ago, have an inadequate system in place for the year 2006. We were told, however, by a man who sounded as though he were talking to 5 year olds that when they put the system in it was state of the art... spare no expense. Back in 1992, that was.
After much lobbying by local residents to Telecom moles and our local MP, (yes I know, a politician) Telecom despatched three souls from three far-away places (at great expense)
in NZ to confront a simmering gaggle of local residents, farmers and business people. It was to be an afternoon of pie-charts, graphs and defensive rhetoric. After one and a half relentless hours, no questions out to the panel were satisfactorily answered, and several residents were pretty darned hot under the collar.
All questions were defended with the beloved and utterly inaccurate charts. Our local MP ran a tight ship, and defused several potential murders... all justifiable homicide in my opinion. She took copious notes and is to present a cogent plea to the CEO of Telecom sometime in the near(?) future. Maybe it will bring results given that it will be woman-to-woman, but I doubt it.
Oh, we got the grand vision... no promises mind, but a grand vision of how rural NZ was to become blah blah blah.... you know.
So we have no access to broadband (highspeed), a dial-up speed of 19.2kps, and the frontline telephone Helpline (another oxymoron) tols two residents recently that if we choose to live in a rural community that we have to expect poorer services. Good one, Telecom.
It all comes back to shareholders...
I think I'll blow up Telecom headquarters...
icarus...
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