As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw

Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by TheAlchemist on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:47PM (#14117712)

And how cheap are the cheapest plans ? Also is an unlimited connection ?

My understanding was that it costs ~100NZD to get a decent connection and I was very surprised to notice than in most hotels / airbnbs it was one of the first things advertised - free WiFi. With our French mobiles, which costs 20e/month, you have unlimited data while in France and 5Go per stay, up to 35 days in a year in many countries (all Europe, US, New Zealand etc).

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by jordanthoms on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:14PM (#14118137)

Mobile Data is still relatively expensive here, but you can get a unlimited 100mbit down/20mbit up fiber connection for ~80/month, and unlimited 1000mbit down/ 500mbit up connection for $130/month.

General browsing is often still a little slower than in the US though, because of the ~200ms latency to the US where most sites are hosted. International bandwidth is pretty good now though - I usually get 200mbit downloads from US servers.

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Re:As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw by RantyDave on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:08PM (#14118093)

NZD75 for 80GB fibre, NZD95 for unlimited.

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