On 02/08/2012, at 11:20 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
a) rules out Auckland then. Power situation in Auckland is not good and due simply where the power sources in NZ are is more points for South centre.
In my experience electricity companies love to charge customers who use lots of electricity lots of money. I've got a suspicion that New Zealand power companies are similar. If someone arrived with a credible plan that required their cooperation to deliver appropriate power, they would consider any location for the right return on investment. The wonderful thing about infrastructure is that it can be built given the appropriate conditions, in this case enough power and a willing customer. As someone who's previously looked at building into NZ, I can't explain how real MMC's comments are for parties who are looking to invest in or build into NZ. Getting to NZ is easy, getting data distributed inside NZ is too painful for anyone but those who operate inside the market on a day to day basis and I suspect too hard even for some of you. Nobody wants to have their expensive international pop at the top of a tower with glass windows, heat, dust, no remote hands, wild amounts of RF and an incomplete view of the local internet. The more you can aggregate your local access networks and the easier you can make it for someone to deliver you content, the more you will get. Dave