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Ragnor:
Telecom has just invested a truckload of money into rolling out a 3G mobile network nationwide, rolling out ADSL2+/VSDL equipment in exchanges and cabinets and doing fibre to the cabinet.
History has shown state run monopolies tend to be bloated inefficient and wasteful, there's no competition to keep them in line. The structual seperation of Telecom has been working well so far imo and the governments proposal for the NBN are pretty solid so far. Telecom will not be able to run a vertically integrated retail and wholesale operation under the prosposed system the government has decided on.
I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Lias:
I didnt say I want to return to a state run monopoly. I just want the current dominant player to be state owned, and to be not for profit. Let as many companies as want to compete, if they can do it cheaper than a company making no profit then surely that simply benefits us kiwis?
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cbrpilot:Lias:
I didnt say I want to return to a state run monopoly. I just want the current dominant player to be state owned, and to be not for profit. Let as many companies as want to compete, if they can do it cheaper than a company making no profit then surely that simply benefits us kiwis?
Lias, this is a silly idea. What company worth their salt would want to compete with an incumbent that is not required to make a profit? How can a company compete with someone selling something below cost? This would be a return to the days of close to zero competition.
I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Ragnor: I think you should read up on the government plan for broadband, it's a private/public partnership... the government can't afford to build a FTTH network by itself.
Ragnor: That was a response Lias, we got pretty far off the original topic.
International bandwidth isn't that much of a concern:
- The price of IP transit has dropped a lot in the last 12 months, Southern Cross Cable and resellers have been lowered prices and the high AU and NZ dollar vs the US has helped a lot.
- Kordia got funding to do the NZ part of the PPC cable (that new one that links Australia to Guam then on to the US).
- The French government is funding a submarine cable in French polynesia that will link to Australia and New Zealand.
Ragnor: I think you should read up on the government plan for broadband, it's a private/public partnership... the government can't afford to build a FTTH network by itself.
Sounddude: International transit is still expensive! However, its coming down.
The main concern for me is the price Telecom charge for National transit! Its almost the same price as International transit!?!?
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