Originally Posted by
Honie
I will be in Wellington in a month's time and I am really curious about a couple of things.
1. How fast is the internet connection? Do they have broadband in major cities?
2. How about cable/satellite TV. I am a soccer freak, so I hope I will still be able to watch the English Premier League, Italian Serie A and Spanish League. I also like CNN, BBC and Sky News.
3. Is it true that most apartments have internet connections and cable TV?
Welcome to the forum Honie,
Ooh your in for one big disappointment, satellite telly and broadband!
You won’t get that in the capital city of NZ, in fact just the other day while the lady on the checkout at the local store was working out my bill on her abacus, she asked if I’d heard about that new invention of dentures, “their made of wood you know, from trees!” “The same wood they make theses new fandangled counting beads from.”
Lol sorry Honei, just my idea of a joke, not funny when your trying to research a place I guess, but I couldn’t resist. As a comms engineer let me assure you that unless you live in a particularly affluent area, or in the sticks, things like broadband aren’t an issue. The affluent areas are a little oversubscribed.
If you’d like a preview of NZ technology (and your in the UK) go to remote Scotland and pickup a phone, or access the internet. The backhall for BT is designed and built in NZ (Welly in fact). Funny really NZ modelled its comms system on BT and now it advances it, I guess NZ also has a soft spot for the UK (Particularly Scotland, don’t know why lol).
Its very true that rural NZ has some comms issues, but that isn’t because the technology isn’t readily available on their doorstep, its because NZ had a bad habit of looking out when it should be looking in (and counting its blessings) other than that, I cant fault the place.
NZ broadband has a bad name, that may be because much of NZ is amazingly remote, as a friend put it “you can be out of a city and in the Ars* end of nowhere in no time at all”, welcome to the southern hemisphere LOL it’s an astonishing place, I hope you enjoy it.
Bob