At 08:58 p.m. 27/12/2003 +1300, Jonathan Dean wrote:
I believe that if high speed internet is available, the national traffic will be the most important. A major factor why 80% of calls are local is that 80% of calls are free.
Of course most people don't send 10.5GB files overseas - because on DSL they would be bankrupted. Do Citylink users have the ability to send 10.5GB offshore if they want too - without paying international tariffs?
traffic on CityLink is free, we charge by connection and service level. Off CityLink is done by the ISPs.
Ultimately, I just want all the schools in New Zealand to be able to actually communicate with each other using high speed networking. It seems to me that government will ensure that every school has access to high speed internet (DSL etc.) but none of them will ever be able to afford to use it.
we've seen that alreadxy. But the balance in all this is as well as networking, the other plank in the economic development concept is the development of local content creation businesses. ie you use the high speed to go look for local content because (in the words of the Min of Culture and Heritage) "it reflects local communities" (or something like that - used to describe regional TV)
If we look at the US internet pyramid it is probably
80% national 15% local 5% international
probably.