Re: New Zealand connection,was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now can Purchase a NA-DVD

I must say that we down under are now slowly undertaking a country wide
program to get majority of the country connected through fibre. I for
one had a digger parked on my front lawn for 2 weeks while they where
laying it down my street. only there is a catch to this scheme we are
unable to connect to it until 2015! or at least thats for my region
(taranaki)

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, at 05:30 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Ahh, finally i got this far back in the thread!
>
> Didn't New Zealand win the "Best backdrop" award at the Oscars?  Surely
> that has to count for something! 
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Tue, 24/7/12, Russell Wilson <russwilsonau@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> From: Russell Wilson <russwilsonau@yahoo.com.au>
> Subject: Re: New Zealand connection, was Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] now
> can Purchase a NA-DVD
> To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 24 July, 2012, 15:15
>
> try  starting with something like 1/4 population of New York, 1000 times
> its surface area, and 1/4 of 1% of its financial worth
>
> Russell
> Dunedin, New Zealand
>
> <snip />
>
>
> > Tom Davies wrote:
> > > Weird.  I assumed it was all done by satellites and that was why the connection to the outside 
> > > world had such limited bandwidth and was so slow.
> >
> > Satellites are so 20th century.  ;-)
> >
> > Actually, with all the fibre cables that have been laid around the world, I don't understand how 
> > NZ could have such poor connections.
>
>
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