Re: [nznog] Campbell Live tonight

On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 10:34 +1300, Nicholas Lee wrote:

On 23/02/06, Simon Byrnand wrote:

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So strictly speaking you could only make a broadband comparision with English speaking countries who source most of their content from overseas...or at minimum check the national/international traffic ratios to see if they're comparable...

I'd disagree.

If we had true broadband here and people were watching stream media from local content providers I'm quite sure our local vs international percentages would be much better.

Like any statistic its a matter of use.

Anyway one of the problem we face at the moment, is we have a market monopoly who dictates the course of the market for ITS best interest. Telecom maintaining their regulation of the market which allows them to match changes and compete with new entrants on their terms. So you might say the development of local independant content is not in their interest for control of the market.

As JSR notes, WHY do the need to regulate the rate between the ISP and user with UBS connections? You would assume that ISPs can do what they obviously have the skill to do, they could regulate the service they supply to their customers. However, this would not be in Telecom best interests. Similar to VoIP it attacks their core markets and forces them to change faster than they are able or will too.

I guess the need to dimension the network and manage how that is used is a fair need. But 148:1 or xxx:1 or whatever it actually is, is the point worth pressing. We engineer between 4 and 8:1 here. There seems to be a long gap between what I know makes my customers happy, and the level that Telecom thinks makes theirs happy. On the Internet, everyone is a customer. Perhaps a standard needs to be agreed? cheers jamie