New Zealand Broadband needs action now
By Mauricio Freitas, in
Blog, posted: 26-SEP-2007 09:03
Defining a Broadband Aspiration (pdf link):
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The New Zealand Institute has identified national economic benefits from broadband in the range of $2.7-4.4 billion per year with further upside potential possible.
Capturing many of these economic benefits increasingly requires high speeds and so New Zealand’s policy focus should shift from encouraging penetration to increasing the speed of the network. This means investing in a fibre network.
There is a significant cost to waiting. The longer that New Zealand waits, the more economic value it will forego and so New Zealand should approach the investment in fibre with urgency.
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Comment by Bruce Trevarthen, on 7-OCT-2007 08:22
I couldn't agree more Mauricio. It shouldn't be a surprise to see Google, Microsoft and Yahoo building these 43,000m2 datacenters around the world. Every milisecond counts in customer satisfaction these days and that's why the big players are 'going local'.
If New Zealand gets off it's butt and establishes a decent infrastructure for the future, a digital lifestyle future, then we'll be in a better position to leverage these services (and create our own) and the economy could benefit from investment from these big players.
Private investment is tricky because our population size does not really support the model the same way it does in other countries. But that is also a fairly narrow view to take, the Microsoft Quincy datacenter for example is in a town of just 5200 people, but it's well connected and services the region and beyond. Perhaps the answer is to look at the Pacific region as the audience and ensure the overall infrastructure supports that.