Yesterday, Communications Minister Steven Joyce asked for public feedback on an MED discussion paper on transtasman mobile phone roaming rates. That's a bit like asking if anyone likes the Black Plague.Kiwiblog's David Farrar forwarded Private Bin hi
Yesterday, Communications Minister Steven Joyce asked for public feedback on an MED discussion paper on transtasman mobile phone roaming rates.
That's a bit like asking if anyone likes the Black Plague.
Kiwiblog's David Farrar forwarded Private Bin his own analysis, which the MED might want to factor in to its investigation:
"My experience with data roaming overseas is that as a destroyer of savings
it is considerably more efficient than burning $100 notes," wrote Mr Farrar.
"You see at $30/MB one can destroy $100 with just 3.3 MB. That can be
downloaded in just two seconds at top end 3G speeds.
'By contrast burning $100 notes takes around 10 seconds, so mobile data
roaming is five times more efficient than burning $100 notes at getting rid
of money.
"I have experimented using accelerants such as petrol. But even after dousing
the $100 note in said accelerant, it still takes four seconds to be
destroyed, so roaming data is still twice as effective at destroying $100 of
value."
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