Posts by Russell Brown
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Yeah, I think Cuncliffe has ambition, but as for providing new thinking I'm not so sure. He's merely copied and the ideas that Australia and the UK have had for increasing internet speeds and made it sound like his own.
That's a childish comment. Of course he's borrowing ideas. He's also been listening fairly intently to a range of people here.
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Peter Griffin has more on Cunliffe's speech:
- Setting up of a private-sector utility company that would accept a lower rate of return on investment to build a fibre-to-the-node network beyond Telecom's.
- Invest in rural broadband infrastructure through Kordia.
- Set up a contestable fund to subsidise the building of a second fibre link to Australia.
- The Government wants access speeds of 20Mbps (megabits per second) to be available in towns of over 10,000 people. That's twice the speed Telecom is expecting to be able to offer.
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So the short term question becomes: Do we stop a major player actually improving services just to help other players in the market make money? i.e. retard broadband improvement for broadband competition?
The answer from the minister fairly clearly seemed to be "no".
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There seems to be at the very least some crossed-wires here re Kiwisaver and privatisation - only way Kiwisaver money (managed by private investment funds on behalf of us investees, nothing to do with Govt at all) will be utilised to fund infrastructure investment is if that infrastructure is privatised or run via PPP.
I think what they're talking about is encouraging the development of a kind of investment vehicle that's scarce on the ground here.
But I don't think the infrastructure will be monolithic at all. Some fibre will be owned by local authorities (and I think theyre better off raising debt that engaging in PPPs -- Treasury seems to agree), some by telcos, some by others.
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Moz has mentioned PPPs too. My main problem with them isn't ideological, just that they're kinda bullshit.
And Reynolds from Telecom just got a scattering of applause for saying he'd like to see more shared infrastructure.
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Don't come back with wireless, either, because anyone with a clue knows that the only way to get really fast connections is by terrestrial link. Wireless is the low-speed, entry-level competitor, not the one that'll let digital businesses do anything worthwhile.
The guy from Vodafone has pointed out that they can't get the dark fibre they need to link all their wireless points.
And Moz has just said there's "no major difference" between National and Labour and even the Greens on broadband policy!
IP, your world is changing.
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Oh, and totally OT: if you're in Wellington, go and see Otis Mace and Bill Direen at Mighty Mighty tonight.
Mike McCaleb made this video of Bill playing Christchurch:
http://www.youtube.com/okmccaleb
The show comes to the Masonic in Devonport on Friday night.
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People save for retirement for the purpose of providing themselves an income in retirement. If you jeopardise returns by channeling capital into non-productive investments, then retirement savings will cease.
Hello, the 90s are calling!
No one's talking about uneconomic investments, but about longer-term investments that provide a secure, debt-type return. The contrast would be with the obsessively short-term model pursued by Telecom in the 1990s. Dividends were bountiful and capital investment slumped below the rate of depreciation. That model will not create a globally competitive broadband infrastructure.
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I suspect you guys are right about cabinetisation -- shortest path to better service in many areas but it undermines LLU.
Reynolds is holding out the prospect of unbundled DSL ports in the cabinets where competitors can't fit their own gear. The government is going to have to stay on Telecom's ass over this one.
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So AK47s do not exist.
You don't know of any & reports have said there were none picked up.
Whatever. I'm trying to stick to matters of public record.
You will clearly just believe what you want to believe, and fire out abuse from behind your pseudonym. You might just want to wonder why someone buys AK47 magazines if they don't have a gun for them.
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