WOW! This list just keeps on comming with really great comments! I spent a lot of time following some lists overseas only to get over run by kids and spammers. On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:16:11 +1300, Simon Blake wrote
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 03:29:31PM +1300, Juha Saarinen said:
The next question then is, why hasn't anyone done it already?
There are two major issues that, if solved, would ease the construction of new community networks.
1) the abolition of the KiwiShare. It's got to go, it's a massive disincentive for anybody wishing to setup voice services in competition with Telecom. For better or worse, you need to be able to offer voice and teev and data to cover the cost of your fibre rollout - the KiwiShare makes this pretty difficult.
Simon can you explain why this is so?
2) the support of local territorial authorities - access to ducts, mandating trench sharing, and so forth. Local councils can make it very easy, or impossibly difficult, for new network operators to invest in infastructure.
Hummm.... Isn't that why getting community to invest in it and own it them selves is a beter idea?
I don't want to sound defeatist, but I think I'll be withered and dead long before there's an affordable alternative to DSL outside the Auckland CBD.
<shrug> Stand for your council, and make a difference - if you could get 1% of the cash spent on Auckland roads spent on Auckland fibre to the home, you'd be awash in high speed data.
Now that makes sense! How often to councils have elections? Cheers DiG -- Don Gould The technology exists to give every home 10mbits per second for $10 per month! Ask not what your telephone company should do for you... ...but what you can do for your broadband community!