mickey_d

Nah, you can get your broadband, Sky & phone for 30 quid in the UK from Virgin.

DC10

not with (much) sport

but the broadband and phone points are important, i'll admit

mickey_d

You don't get sport for $50 in NZ, basic Sky package is $48 + $25 or $34 for sport.

luvwelly

Also internet is outrageous here especially if you download a lot as my kids do.

barnsleymat

God I miss my Virgin V+ HD, amazing OnDemand, free ESPN, Unlimited 10meg broadband and telephone line for £30 a month.

The equivalent here would cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars, although there's no fibre optics cables into homes so would be impossible. My Orcon 30gb lasts about a week then it's 3 weeks of data rations.

Woodlea

Plenty of fibre here in Chch, it was put in a few years ago, one of the benefits of an overhead electrical distribution network is it's easy to string some fibre on it. All the new subdivisions have fibre too.

mickey_d

Makes you realise what crap value for money Sky NZ is when you look at what you get with Virgin.

barnsleymat

Do you get unlimited data with broadband?

barnsleymat

That's why I refuse to have Sky, I refused to have Sky in the UK but at least there was an alternative. I can cope with crap TV, but capped broadband is prehistoric.

There's many companies doing broadband but prices still seems very high, so maybe if sky had a competitor it'd still be a rip off.

mickey_d

No-one offers unlimited broadband in NZ. We were on one with Telecom (Go Large) for a year or so until they scrapped it.
We're now on 60GB with them, which isn't to bad. Still expensive though!!!

Robbo25

No one does unlimited BB in the UK either, as they have lovely 'fair usage' clauses which typically max out at 100Gb which of course is somewhat higher and yes a lot cheaper.

In the U.S some carriers are introducing caps as they cannot keep up with the bandwidth people want and fight on price, it is a telecom industry issue at present.

MattandJax

Try slingshot, they have a special on the moment , unlimited internet for $60 a month.

mickey_d

Looks good, but not available at our address yet!!
There is upgrading being done around here at the moment, so maybe soon.
Some of OH,s friends in Hastings are on Slingshot, but their speeds are less than 1/2 of what we get. What sort of speeds do you get?

skybluestu

were with Telecom on the 100 gig package, we need it because of the kids downloading and skype etc, refuse to buy the Sky even though i miss the football

MattandJax

Fantastic around 14 - 15 mb/s. Much better than the UK

Matt