Olympic Media Village – Most Expensive Internet In the World?

An anonymous reader writes "Working for the Olympics as an IT contractor, I recently moved to the Media Village (where all of the reporters live) and was surprised the there was no free internet. BOCOG (Beijing Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games) is charging a ridiculous amount of money for ADSL service: for 512/512 it costs 7712.5 RMB (1131.20 USD); for 1M/512 it costs 9156.25 (1342.95 USD); for 2M/512 it costs a whopping 11,700 RMB (1716.05 USD). That is for only one month! For extra features like a fixed IP? That costs an additional 450 RMB (66 USD). I just can't believe that not only do I have to deal with the Great Firewall of China, but also pay through the nose to use it!"

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[ForestGrump]

Possibly because at those rates, nobody can afford to comment! Media censorship has succeeded again!

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[backslashdot]

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Re:nw chrgs sk

[Anonymous Coward]

F u china gvnmt.i rly wld lk to sy mre thn jst ths fw wrds bt th hgh chrgs ar nt afdble. f nly i cld b bl t wrt tht i dsprve ntrly f ths hgh chrgs i wldnt hv 2 b abrvted nd cd say f i hv bn absd or trtred o not. f i cd offrd 2 tll f i hv bn trtrd trst m i wld jst sy t. nywy i wl hv 2 snf nw bcz i m lt fr a prtst mrch in tinman sqr. i shld b bck sn, sry i hd 2 mk ths so shrt. nxt tm i wl c f i cn gt a discnt o nt. i wl c. ltrs bb, bckslsdt .. b th wy, i wt dd u tnk f th btmn mvie? t ws wmsm u rly shldc c t f u gt th chnce. hth ldgr ws gd, i thnk oscr 4 sre, nt jst ot f smpthy. nwy i wl c u ltr, b b, \.

I tried to translate that for some informative karma but failed, sorry \.

Re:Try Dubai..

[Anonymous Coward]

Dubai isn't hosting the olympics nor is your business located in the media village of one.

Re:What is wrong? It is for only some weeks.

[clarkkent09]

"hoas to", "tehere", "peopele", "hime"

Let me guess, you are typing this on a cell phone?

Re:Try Dubai..

[iminplaya]

Notice anything...?

Everybody's driving on the wrong side of the road...Definitely photoshopped.

Re:The great firewall

[ilovegeorgebush]

As far as I remember, it is a specific requirement from IOC

Inversion Of Control? Huh? What's that got to do with it?

Oh wait, I need to get out more.

Luxury!

[Mr2001]

You kids today don't know how good you have it. Why, back in my day, I paid ONE WHEELBARROW FULL OF GOLD, every week, for a 75 baud line that I shared with my two hundred employees, their families, and their in-laws.

Oh, and it was half duplex! Every time we were done sending and wanted to start receiving, we had to climb a ladder to the top of the building -- which was an 80 story skyscraper, mind you -- and switch the wires around. Even during a thunderstorm.

And mister, you better believe that when we finally got an MP3 downloaded, we cherished it. We didn't just cram it in an iPod Shuffle and forget about it like these hoodla do now.

Re:Luxury!

[nacturation]

75 baud? You had it lucky. We only dreamed of 75 baud. Why, when I was a lad we had to sacrifice a family member every day for the privilege of whistling into the phone line to send while someone else jotted down the notes he heard to receive. And every night our Dad would thrash us to sleep every time we got a NO CARRIER.
 

Re:Luxury!

[greyhueofdoubt]

Every time we were done sending and wanted to start receiving, we had to climb a ladder to the top of the building -- which was an 80 story skyscraper, mind you

Oh yeah? Well, back in MY day we didn't HAVE 80-story skyscrapers. What WE did was climp up a ONE-story skyscraper 80 TIMES! And we didn't have half-duplex! We had one wire! One wire pigtailed to earth and in order to send a byte, you had to send 8 times using a bit shift register to move the bit that got onto the wire over one slot each time. All the other bits wound up on the floor, in your hair, everywhere! Oh did I mention that we used carrier pigeons for bits?

-b

Re:Luxury!

[greyhueofdoubt]

You had alligator clips? We had to use Choristodera clips!

-b

Re:Try Dubai..

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait... the GGP talks about "scumbags wearing towels on their head" and says that Dubai is not a "real country", yet the GP is racist because he uses the word "redneck"?

Umm... try some perspective, maybe?

(And just for the record, "redneck" does not refer to Irish or Scottish immigrants: it refers to people who work on the fields and have, well, red necks - due to sunburns. It's not a racist term, and for the most part, it's not even offensive.)

you're own fault

[dwater]

Clearly you have a big nose and so can afford it.

It's your own fault.

Next time, get a smaller nose.

Re:Try Dubai..

[jollyreaper]

Redneck is derogatory in the same way that towelhead is. Neither being racist. Both being prejudiced.

I don't know of any popular arab female singers warbling "I'm a towelhead woman!"

Re:Try Dubai..

[indifferent children]

We have deserts in America too. We just don't live in them!

Re:Try Dubai..

[Spatial]

Immigrant workers in the UAE

I know the Amiga is difficult to emulate, but immigrant workers in the code? Jeez.

Re:So move out of Dubai then

[orasio]

Why anyone would want to live there is a mystery to me. Is saving tax really worth living in a sterile cultureless city in the middle of a desert?

But Vegas is fun!!

Re:Dunno if it's censorship1

[dapsychous]

But, but... Where are they ever going to find cheap, knockoff computer electronics in China?