Stephen Fry bags Kiwi broadband – and Telecom
By Esther Goh,
Actor and prolific tweeter Stephen Fry has let loose in a rant about the speed of Kiwi broadband, calling it "probably the worst" he's ever encountered.
Fry is in Wellington for the filming of The Hobbit, in which he plays master of Laketown.
He tweeted this morning to his nearly 4 million followers: "Rise up, Kiwis and demand better? You wouldn't allow crap roads with pot holes and single file. [That's] what you've got [broadband-wise]."
He called the broadband speed he was getting "pathetic", although in a reply to film writer Chris Price added, "I know that it's a miracle that it exists at all".
Fry also fingered Telecom's "complacent" and "contemptuous" treatment of customers.
Telecom responded with: "Ouch – we can send a mobile bband stick, to see if that's better?"
Comments
DK
Lets hope it adds momentum to the cause - so many opportunities for the digital (NZ) economy and more if the speeds were comparable to the other parts of the world.
From a Welshman who has been here for 8 months :-)
GS
It's our isolation. Sure, with reasonable investment we can have ultraspeed broadband WITHIN NZ, but all external links go through one cable, and this means all global traffic is slow.
High speed cable is being rolled out internally, but we will have to wait for entrepreneurs for the hidiously expensive second cable for international links.
RG
Broadband!? Heck! I'm still driving all over the country looking for the 90% 3G mobile coverage we're supposed to have…
RugbyMother
Clearly he hasn't discovered that most of our roads, while not usually pot-holed are indeed “single file”!
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