stuzzo:

tombrownzz: Here are some things I want to know:

How is the fibre going to be laid? Micro trenching or digging up the footpath? If its digging up the footpath how am I going to drive my car from the road to my garage when the footpath is dug up and the concrete is drying? Will it be half of the driveway 1 day and half the next?

Is the fibre going to come into my property or do I have to pay extra to get the fibre from the footpath to my property?
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By the time it get's to your place you'll be flying in a Jetpack. Don't worry about it.

ockel:

networkn: How in the name of all that is holy can they offer tauranga this, and not the business hubs of NZ, IE Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch it first.

The JAFA in me says that you use the lesser valued areas as pawns to drive hard bargains on price and timing for the more valuable areas.

In reality it could be that Northpower and WEL made the best offer under the RFP's and advanced to negoitation on that basis.

exportgoldman:

ockel:

networkn: How in the name of all that is holy can they offer tauranga this, and not the business hubs of NZ, IE Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch it first.

The JAFA in me says that you use the lesser valued areas as pawns to drive hard bargains on price and timing for the more valuable areas.

In reality it could be that Northpower and WEL made the best offer under the RFP's and advanced to negoitation on that basis.

I beg to differ about Auckland being well serviced. Telecom left the big city centers last for the VDSL/ADSL2 rollout, as it was more complex and they wanted to perfect the rollout on smaller towns.

For example, I live in the heart of Auckland (Parnell), we get 3 Megabits on ADSL1 and are (as is a lot of Auckland) last on the list of VDSL/ADSL2 cabinets to be rolled out in September 2011 - so it's entirely possible we will get ADSL2 when the first fibre optic cables are being connected into peoples homes in Tauranga.

I think ockel is right that there is a bit of hard bargaining and leaving the best sites to last, but also a bit easier to sort out the contracts for the small towns and if it goes to custard it's not a huge embarrassment.

Richard7666: Do most cities still have overhead power-poles? I know that Invercargill has had all its power and communications cabling underground for a decade now. This could be problematic.

sbiddle: One thing that's been interesting has been the talk of "free installations".

There seems to be a lot of unanswered questions relating to this, so if people do know the answers I'd love to know.

Where will fibre be terminated? Initially it was going to be to the pole/kerb but there has since been talk in recent months of it being terminated at the demarc on the house. Doing this will require consent of the land owner which has caused big issues in Aussie with around 50% of people not giving permission in Tasmania.

What is considered to be a "free install"? If cable needs to be run to the house, either as an overhead drop or trench, an ONT needs to be installed, house wiring needs to be altered, a new router installed, and possibly a house alarm moved over to an IP adapter to ensure continuity of alarm monitoring. Who is going to pay for all of this?

cyril7: Slightly off topic, as has been mentioned in earlier posts, our current DSL offerings have a CIR of 48kb/s, with the current major upgrade to the DSL network via FTTN that provides 10Mb/s or more to 80% of homes, I guess the question has to be asked when can we expect similar contention ratios as being offered on the UFB, lets hope this competition puts pressure on existing delivery platforms.

It only takes a few moments to wander through the GZ Broadband thread to see the continuing complaints regards poor speeds from all ISPs to know that a mix of international speeds and poor in country transit speeds is catching up on such low contention ratio's, something most of us would happily pay an extra few $ per month to have fixed. With more and more content being cached onshore there is now no reason to hold back on national transit even if it did come at a small premium, or have a missed something.

Cyril