Tag Archives: broadband
Broadband bouquets and brickbats
I find it so difficult staying connected when I'm on the road that I feel compelled to compliment hotels, motels and airports when they do something to help. And complain when they do something to make it harder.
So here are this week's Broadband Brickbat and Bouquet. The Brickbat goes to Telecom for telling me I won't be able to get free wifi at their Wifi Hotspots anymore - previously a perk of being a Telecom home subscriber.
The great disconnect
The trouble with this highly connected high-speed wired world we live in, is that it isn't. It's hard work staying connected on the road. I have two wi-fi enabled devices - a little lightweight laptop and a hunking great HTC Tytn pda. Which is all well and good but for the utter paucity of wifi in New Zealand and the nonsense of having to pay for it when you find it.
First rule for ISPs: keep it simple (please)
Here's something I'd like New Zealand's ISPs to read. It's a list of suggestions made by Silicon Alley Insider in response to the news that some US cable companies are moving to user-consumption billing (more you use, more you pay). Here's a couple to be getting on with: Make things simple. Don't have 50 pricing plans.
Online video ‘complements’ linear broadcasting
Emarketer reports that six out of 10 broadband users watch video online at least once a week.
‘Distinctions between TV, radio & web will go’