And the other important part is SCCN "could" charge more to NZ due to the monopoly. But they don't.
Plus talking about 1gb plans. That is by far and above the edge cases.
We have to remember this is bb for the masses.
Most OECD countries have an average GB usage below 40 or so... And they have far more options in the online video content space.
So NZ isn't *that* different in that respect. Plus in many of those countries have underground ducting that is reused unlike NZ which makes a massive impact on costs.
Last of all much of it gets run by the government so issues with the RMA doesn't apply.
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From: "Mauricio Freitas"
How are prices high when it costs the same to land data on SCCN NZ-US as it does AU-US and there is 3 cables going into AU?
Sorry I don't get what you're saying here. Probably just me being dense, could you expand?
NZ is a small population with a low wage economy spread across a very mountainous geography that the vast majority of people only use less than 30gb of data....
Thats true, but it changes. At one point it was impossible to imagine that people would even require 1gb/month. You want the speed of capability to keep pace with the speed of demand. The problem is that capability is always slower to accelerate.
Fix those issues and we will all have cheaper internet.
I don't necessarily want cheaper. I want one which matches my expectations more. =) Dean _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog