Kim Dotcom Promises Free Broadband for New Zealand
Kim Dotcom has big plans for New Zealand's internet infrastructure.
According to an article published by the New Zealand Herald, Dotcom wants to resurrect plans for the Pacific Fibre Cable and help fund the required $330 million investment.
The cable would double New Zealand's current Internet bandwidth and support his Me.ga company, as well as a new data center that would create jobs. Dotcom sweetens the deal by proposing that he would grant internet service providers free Internet access for individual customers and charge a fee to businesses and government. The article suggests that New Zealanders could expect to pay for their broadband access only 20 percent of what they pay now and enjoy connection speeds that are up to five times faster - without bandwidth caps.
So, how would Dotcom come up with the money for the 8,050 mile cable between the U.S. and Australia? Those who have followed Dotcom's business for some time already know that there is a flaw in the chain somewhere: Dotcom does not have the money, but he can get it, he says. How? By suing Hollywood studios and the U.S. Government for their "unlawful and political destruction of [his] business".
Before suing and building, Dotcom still has to deal with an extradition hearing in March. The Herald noted that a New Zealand court ruled "that the January raid [against Dotcom] and seizure were unlawful" and "the nation's spy agency was found to have illegally spied on Dotcom."
However ridiculously high you think the prices in the US are, I'm willing to bet they are ridiculously higher in New Zealand. Everything is ridiculously overpriced here relative to the US.
But...the price is $62.20/month relatively.
anything capped is bullcrap, anywhere in the world.
From the eyes of a foreigner, nobody could be more stupid than Bush jr.
Probably the wisest president you lot had was Clinton. Never started a war, iirc. Obama, from how i see it, had to fix Bush's mess. He's also prioritizing getting out of war.
Dotcom should be nickname Doc.Tor Evil:
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In bigger cities, for the same fee, the download speed is 5 or even 10 times higher.
Now don't get angry, the fees might be low but we earn less money. My salary is 500 $.
Who laughs now?
I live in India. I pay 900INR ( 16 USD ) for an internet package - 4Mbps till 8GB thereafter 512Kbps per month.
Your countries are way better.
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Yes, $10 is OK, but that's because of subsidies. Dotcom still has a lot to learn from Dracula
I think your internet providers are greedy. Your infrastructure is getting old, but is still acceptable and the providers don't want to change it, not yet. We had no infrastructure at all, but when we got it, they put optical fiber I guess.