British actor Stephen Fry, in Wellington for filming of The Hobbit, made his opinions about NZ's pathetic broadband known when he posted his experiences saying: "Rise up, Kiwis and demand better. You wouldn't allow crap roads with pot holes and single file."
In response to Telecom's equally pathetic excuses, he stated that it is ''a disaster for the economy''. In a series of tweets he called New Zealand a "digital embarrassment" and said Comcast style throttling was "disastrous, for visitors, for everyone".
Well, those who regularly read this blog will have seen our posts on the subject of Telecom over the last 3 years about the way it has behaved, particularly under the economic destruction of Teresa "Train Wreck" Gattung, although Telecom's big bullying autocratic monopoly nature goes back to the 1980s. The previous Labour government--whose period in office largely overlapped that of Gattung--could and should have dismembered Telecom but didn't: something for the Labour Party to be ashamed of.
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