Posts by Matthew Poole
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The plot thickens, with confirmation that Joyce "persuaded would-be participants in a campaign fighting for lower internet prices not to take part."
Various big-name organisations withdrew support after speaking with Joyce, which "[he] takes that to mean the campaign tends to fall apart whenever the other view has a chance to be represented."hmm, no, I don't think that's likely.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Steve Barnes,
None of that changes the reality that UFB is a useless place to do fibre tapping because it's still a strand per connection, and back-haul from exchanges and cabinets has been multiplexed over fibre for longer than the FTTH discussion has been happening seriously in this country.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I did , however, come up with a likely beneficiary, the GCSB.
It is much easier to intercept a multiplexed data stream over fibre than to have to tap in to all those strands of copper.You do know that the trunks have been fibre for a decade or more, right? All those data streams have been multiplexed onto fibre at the exchange level since the late-90s/early-00s. Copper back-haul went the way of the dodo when ADSL started breaking the Mbps limit, because it's just too expensive to try and deliver even vaguely acceptable levels of service with copper back-haul.
Your entire conspiracy delusion falls apart at that point.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And a petrol tax go into the govt consolidated fund.
Not for years. Road taxes were hypothecated by Labour somewhere around 2002.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Sacha,
if you can’t water it, their Minister is not interested
That's because their minister knows first-hand how important it is to be watered ;)
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Paul Campbell,
they are building out the fibre completely around my neighbourhood at the moment – they’ll get to me some time in 2016 apparently
I live in Ellerslie, which is firmly in the middle of the old Auckland City Council boundaries, moderately affluent, and generally ought to be well-served by fibre. There's even a school three doors up the road (with fibre already delivered), and another one around the corner (also with fibre already delivered). But my address isn't on the UFB delivery schedule until 2015. A friend who lives on the Henderson/Ranui border, in deepest, darkest Westie-land, looks to be getting UFB in his street by the end of next month. His nearest school is hundreds of metres in a straight line, never mind measuring by road..
There's just been no sense to the roll-out. When they were laying in the fibre to the schools, it would have made sense to lay in the residential fibre at the same time; only have to open up the trench once, meaning less technician time and less disruption. But that would have been too easy. Instead we're going to (if we're still there) get UFB in the neighbourhood there will be another month of the pavement and street being dug up while the next series of ducts are laid in, having already been through it once.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Farrar did actually support the unbundling of the local loop, much to the disgust of the commenters on his blog.
DPF has more technical nous than any two of his blog's commenters combined. He's also not utterly, implacably opposed to regulation when there's an obvious market failure.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to nzlemming,
His presence on this consortium lends credibility as a non-tribal matter, rather than taking away.
It's a good counter to the blubbery one's assertion that Jordan has turned INZ into a Labour Party policy outfit, which is then the only reason that INZ would be getting in behind such a campaign.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to George Darroch,
Treasury cautions against Tiwai sweetener
And were ignored. Well I'll be. National ignored Treasury. Why do they even bother keeping the department around? Given how often Treasury's really significant advice has been ignored by the current regime, surely it's not just for the neololberal smokescreen?
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Could you show us the working to get $600 million as the number?
Yes, I'm curious too. I probably did it wrong, but I got $600m/12 months/$12 extra per month=~4.17m, which I would take to mean that many connections paying that much more per month. And there aren't 4.17m copper internet connections in this country, or even close. If I replace $12 with $20 I get 2.5m, which I would say is probably fairly close to the truth once business DSL connections are counted, but you can't use $20 because $8 of that will be paid even under the ComCom determination.