Jonathan Dean wrote:
I believe that if high speed internet is available, the national traffic will be the most important.
Ok, why?
National traffic is important because both now and in the future, important and popular content will be hosted in Auckland and not Bluff. National traffic may not have the highest bandwidth consumption traffic compared to Aucklands and Wellington's local traffic - but it is important that everyone, irrespective of location gets the same access to the same data at the same speed - or we will end up with our own local 'digital divide'. Should a Wellington child have a better education because their school has access to a faster internet connection than a Bluff child.
The Korean experience over the last 3 years has seen a change of ratio from 5% National:: 95%International to 95% National:: 5%International (despite significant increases in International traffic, and because of phenomenal increases in National traffic). Why would you think that important and popular content will be hosted in Auckland and not in Bluff? If we have a genuinely fast cheap national network, who would give a rats whether content is hosted in Auckland, Bluff or Eketahuna? If you start building your end of the network, and I start to build mine, and other people start to build theirs, very soon, anyone left who is not on the network will give eye teeth just to be on the network - even Telecom... Keith Davidson