At 01:06 p.m. 27/02/2002 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Richard Naylor wrote:
However, its not that bad. Remember we are DEREGULATED. That means YOU can dig up the road. Just fill in the form, comply with the specs and get out your shovel. Hook up 12 people and get an operators licence. your own letter from the GG.
I was told that it's not that simple. You need permits, and you have to pay the local council a hefty sum for the "ground lease" (or a similar term).
The permits are typically called street opening notices. You follow the local code of practice and you should be sweet. The ground lease idea is something that councils are trying on at the moment, just like building owners are trying to get operators to pay them for the cables being in buildings. So just watch how useful a building (or city) is like without services. AKL people know what it was like without power.
This might be a peculiarity for Auckland city, however.
Akl CC doesn't get the program. Which is why AKL is referred to as a "bandwidth desert" - and that gets us back to the beginning of the topic. rich richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog