Posts by Juha Saarinen
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Not quite the rosy open market Juha seems to feel it is (though huge kudos to him for breaking the story).
Thanks Rex and no, I don't think the NBN's a rosy open market. Kind of hoped that NZ, starting later, would do better. That's all.
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Russell Brown,
Apart from stating the obvious - CFH can't regulate national and international bandwidth without building further networks, or existing ones being designated - it's worth noting that resold broadband today is a low-margin business.
I checked again with ISPs; assuming they're not telling fibs, their margins are around $60 per customer and year currently. Out of that comes international bandwidth, helpdesk and more.
If correct, it goes someway towards explaining why we have such low data caps in NZ and why our connections are shared with many users (oversubscribed).
Now, I expect that when UFB finally comes on line, international and national bandwidth will be substantially cheaper than what it is today. It'll be interesting to see where the retail prices end up in that scenario. The way CFH has designed the UFB, I also expect retail providers to get a slice of the action for other services than just broadband, such as IPTV for instance.
Nothing's in the ground though, and we're not being told what the plan is so... who knows for sure?
Note that I'm not talking about LLU above, which I understand has very high margins compared to resold DSL.
Oh, and apparently the CFH isn't a regulator either.
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For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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Hard News: Book review: 'Wikileaks:…, in reply to Don Christie,
Journalists have their own, often narrow, agendas which are not generally those of the public interest.
Don, please don't turn into another Whale Oil... that's a really stupid thing to say.
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Sorry, Keith... I don't understand. What has this got to do with Goff and Key dyeing their hair?
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Funnily enough, I was reading about Brian de Palma's Dressed To Kill in Michael Caine's autobiography a short while ago, thinking I'll make sure to give it a miss.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to John Campbell,
Right John. You're clearly not notorious and newsworthy enough. I can fix that. We shall revel and quaff! and make the front page!
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This is probably my OCD itching, but I couldn't help noticing that the Herald put the "Celebrity in disorder case named" story in the Technology section, instead of the Crime or Entertainment or even News one(s).
The deeper meaning of that is of course... uhh... something that isn't lost upon us. :)
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Would much rather have a bridge like the proposed Centenary one than a tunnel, which is most likely going to be closed off for foot and bike traffic.
As for the North Shore busway, it's useless to this Shore Boy. Suspect I'd feel different about it if I could e.g. take a bus home, or from Northcote to Devonport and also, if riding on that form of public transport wasn't such a dire experience that's actually quite costly. Maybe it's the superlative design of the busway, but it never seems particularly busy with commuters either.
It'll be curious to see how well buses do when we start running out of oil in a serious fashion over the next few years.
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Shouldn't that be "vuvuzuela" up there?
Oh, and First Post!