Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 25/8/2023 (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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[-] MadMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Vodafone just let us know our fibre bill will be going up by 6$ a month, citing their costs changing.

Shouldn't fibre costs decrease overtime as it gets more users and achieves economies of scale?

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Because the government funded the network I'm not sure normal rules apply. But probably thier "costs" are unrelated to the fibre itself. It's probably a lot to do with higher IT salaries, and higher salaries in general.

ISPs pay a fee to chorus for the usage, and I've never heard of chorus putting their prices down.

We also got $5 a month added to our bill with skinny (I think that brings it to $80 for 300 down/100 up unlimited).

[-] MadMonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How much IT maintenance is required once the connection is set up? I thought fibre was an initial large investment, but required little upkeep.

If it does take man power its a given that the price will continue to climb.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

I would think the same. My comment wasn't very clear about what I meant, but I was getting at the staff cost of the ISP. So they pay chorus X amount each month for your connection, and maybe that hasn't changed. But your ISP also has support staff to answer emails and phones, for billing and HR and everything else companies have. Those staff will be costing more over time.

[-] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Was thinking of getting my parents onto Skinny Fibre. I've got a Skinny modem from a couple of years ago, so we should get the $5 BYO Modem Discount for a year, and I was thinking of getting one of them onto a Skinny Number so that we get the $10 Discount as well, bringing it in at $65/month for 300 Fibre. They're currently paying $80 something with Vodafone, and that's due to go up another $6.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

The $10 discount is only on their higher plans. I'm on a $17/month plan so don't qualify. But I still haven't been able to find any better deal, at least not one worth switching for.

I feel like the golden age of ISP bribes is over 🙁. When we signed up to Skinny, it was 6 months free on a 12 month contract. Couldn't believe it. That was at least a couple of years ago now.

[-] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, only on $27 and up. Heard from Mum that Dads always running out of data, so need to do some shopping around to see if upgrading to more data via Skinny will be worth it compared to other providers.

Haha, yeah they're now down to only 2 months :( though in saying that, while driving the other day, I did see a glimpse of a bus stop ad showing 4 o(or 6) months free when signing up - but can't quite remember who that was.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are lots that have like 3 months half price, then $100/m after that. That's not a good deal.

Also with Skinny's 2 months free, I asked them about it and they said they only do 1 month free for fibre, the 2 months free was adsl only.

[-] NoRamyunForYou@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Oh shoot, just re-checked and you're right! Only 1 month for Fibre. I was sort of set on getting my parents onto Skinny, but will need to re-shop to see if there's anything better out there at the moment.

I should also check with my partner whether we only got 1 month, because we signed up with Skinny for their Fibre recently in our new place (though we still have an ongoing debacle with fibre install but that's another story).

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've been looking for a while now, and haven't seen anything that is worth me moving. Any good deals all have high monthly payments after the initial deal.