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NZ Plan For Fiber To the Home

Posted by kdawson on from the pinching-the-air-supply dept.

Ars has a note about New Zealand's plans for nationwide broadband access, which will induce envy in many North American readers. "New Zealand has decided not to sit around while incumbent DSL operators milk the withered dugs of their cash cow until it keels over from old age. Instead, the Kiwis have established a government-owned corporation to invest NZ$1.5 billion for open-access fiber to the home. By 2020, 75 percent of residents should have, at a bare minimum, 100Mbps down/50 Mbps up with a choice of providers. Crown Fibre Holdings Limited is the company, and it's wholly owned by the government — for now — and the company's mission couldn't be any clearer. Two of its six guiding principles include 'focusing on building new infrastructure, and not unduly preserving the "legacy assets" of the past' and 'avoiding "lining the pockets" of existing broadband network providers.'"

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  1. Re:Deja Vu by timmarhy · · Score: 1, Troll

    The NBN is going to be another K Rudd disaster. essentially what they are proposing in Australia is to duplicate telstra at a cost of 43 BILLION. Guess what the market cap of telstra is? 37.7 billion. I'm having trouble deciding if our government is retarded or just incompetent. For the proposed cost of the NBN (which given the Rudd government's hisotry with pink batts and the buildings for school scheme seems 99.9% certain to blow out in cost), they could buy telstra and simply upgrade that networks last mile copper in regional area's and go fibre where economical.

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  2. Re:Deja Vu by ztransform · · Score: 0, Troll

    The NBN is going to be another K Rudd disaster

    The Labor government in Australia are going out of their way to completely f*** up freedom and information. Want to browse a website about suicide? That's illegal in Australia and an internet filter will stop you! Want to enter Australia? You have to declare you're carrying pornography (yes, I am naked under my clothes)!

    I'm having trouble deciding if our government is retarded or just incompetent.

    Incompentence is a requirement for being a member or supporter of the Labor party in Australia. But it also helps if you are evil and manipulative.