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kelly2626: why doesn't telecom offer 8Mbps broadband? They are talk about providing adsl2 which has 24mbps download speed, but they can't even provide the max 8Mbps for adsl they have currently. Can't their network handle 8Mbps right now? Saying that is they have adsl2 will they only provide 12mbps instead of 24Mbps? providers in the UK are offering 8Mbps and some provders have 24Mbps.
timbosan: juha - when you say cable on the roadside, do you mean like the old First Media network fibre? Do you know/think they would use this existing infrastucture as a starting point to the ADSL2+ rollout?
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adamj: I read somewhere recently, think it might have been on Stuff, about a European country (Might have been one of the scandinavian ones) deciding if they should upgrade their broadband speeds to 100Mbits or if that will be too slow and should they go for 1Gbits instead.
Currently we are WELL BEHIND in broadband compared to most other OECD countries, and we LOVE the internet. I was on Trade Me the other day and it was showing 50,000 people on the site! Even if 10,000 of those people were inactive or whatever, thats 1% of the ENTIRE COUNTRY on Trade Me at that moment. I find that insanely hard to comprehend.
We should not be aiming to get out Broadband up to average OECD levels, WE SHOULD BE THE BEST. Look at Wellington and CityLink. Basically the whole of Downtown Wellington is crawling with Dark Fibre. If we did this in every major city in the country (And really, it isn't that inconciveable) we could have Gigabit internet to every urban household in the country.
Given our size and our population density etc I really don't think it would be that hard for us to achieve #1 in the OECD for broadband. Sure it would be a huge capital investment but at the moment we are really getting held back from out full potential. Kiwi's are about as Web Savvy as they get.
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cokemaster: Would it be any different if we 'let the market decide' what happens?
Isn't that is what national is all about? Giving businesses more freedom from taxation and regulation?
(Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
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cokemaster: Nobody did, however an alternative to the Labour led government is a national led government. I don't really see any of the other parties being able to form a government currently.
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