http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/4217272/Capital-poses-broadband-challenge

I read the article above this morning and thought it is interesting that citylink is planning to lay fibre in areas not already served by Telstra's cable.

My thought then went to something I have seen discussed here a bit, which is that TC doesn't peer with citylink (mainly regarding speeds with speedtest being better to chch than citylink in Wellington).

I would be interested in hearing whether people know if there is a peering requirement in this UFB initiative, because we may end up with overlapping service provision, and without this requirement potentially long loops (high latency) to access servers on another providers fibre (as TC currently does with citylink)?

Presumably this will be dealt with in the layer 2 (or 3) level agreements, if it is included?

Jon