There is a national group forming to create wifi backbones in major regions, non-commercial stuff but should be interesting to see what happens www.nzwireless.org Regards Tristram -----Original Message----- From: Richard Naylor [mailto:richard.naylor(a)citylink.co.nz] Sent: Sunday, 28 December 2003 12:30 p.m. To: rodger(a)diaspora.gen.nz; Juha Saarinen Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Commerce Commission - bitstream etc. At 09:37 a.m. 28/12/2003 +1300, Rodger Donaldson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:03:59AM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Of course it can. There are no practical impediments, only political ones. I'm wondering why it was OK to string cable all over Wellie, but when Telstra was going to do the same here, the NIMBY mayors all stopped it.
Actually resistence set into Saturn in Wellington, too, especially once they started cabling the rich neighbourhoods, like Roseneath. For a while we had "action committees" trying to get existing cable buried. They got off a bit easier here because so much is already above ground - whining about Saturn cable looks a bit patethic if you're in a street that already has trolley bus cables.
yeah they were dumb. every utility engineer knew you could run overhead anywhere in Wgtn, BUT NOT Roseneath and Wadestown. Saturn had US Cable TV guys doing what Cable tv guys do - just run cable. rich _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog