Internet In New Zealand

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Anyway, Is it true you must pay for bandwidth used in New Zealand and for a small group of people this can cost upwards of $3000 US?
That particular scenario sounds unreasonable (unless we're talking 10Mbit fibre connections), but it is true that New Zealand have rediculously bad Internet compared to everywhere else. The 512/512 connection with no traffic limit I currently have is about 3 times as expensive as the theoreticly similar line I had in Denmark, I get disconected regularly and the 512 Kbit is not a guaranteed bandwidth (ie, it can be [and usually is] much lower). Downloading a Linux ISO - forget about it.