{"id":394,"date":"2008-01-11T08:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-01-11T08:05:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:05:23","slug":"kazakhstan-here-we-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan here we come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, Borat had it good. Reading the Timor Telecom phone book cover to cover reminded me about internet charges here.<\/p>\n

There is no unlimited dial-up plan here so it is difficult to make a dial-up comparison between TL and Kazakhstan. I figured that a modest low-end permanent 256kbps connection would still be something that people in western countries could at least comprehend. Fortunately this comparison was easy. I even added in Afghanistan and Australia to the mix. The results (which may not include some other charges like installation fee) follow :<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Monthly charge for 256kbps permanent connection (unlimited traffic)
\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timor-Leste<\/td>\n$1750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kazakhstan<\/td>\n$1057<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afghanistan<\/td>\n$350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Australia<\/td>\n$35 to 40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I struggled to find a figure for unlimited dial-up in Kazakhstan but an article from mid-2007 suggested USD111 per month (ie 720 hours). If you are on the heavy-user dial-up plan here, you will get about 40 hours for your USD111.<\/p>\n

On a related matter, I cringe every time I see or hear someone refer to “broadband” internet in reference to internet access here and when I do, I nearly always correct them to say “permanent internet connection”. A 128 kbps connection shared between even 5 users in an internet cafe is not broadband. These days, most of the internet cafes have moved to 256kbps but unless there is no more than a handful of users, it is often pathetic particularly when compared to the modestly priced home internet connection I had before coming here (ie factor of 10).<\/p>\n

I know I am being a pedant, but a simple search of online “TV” re-broadcasting over the internet shows streaming speeds of over 256kbps are the most common. I refer you to JLC’s Internet TV<\/a> free internet TV listing.<\/p>\n

A look back at a post<\/a> I did nearly 2 years ago suggests that Timor Telecom tariffs have not moved 1 cent since then. I guess I should “churn” to a competitor. Hey, wait a minute … there isn’t one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, Borat had it good. Reading the Timor Telecom phone book cover to cover reminded me about internet charges here. There is no unlimited dial-up plan here so it is difficult to make a dial-up comparison between TL and Kazakhstan. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}