And the other important part is SCCN "could" charge more to NZ due to the monopoly. But they don't. Plus talking about 1gb plans. That is by far and above the edge cases. We have to remember this is bb for the masses. Most OECD countries have an average GB usage below 40 or so... And they have far more options in the online video content space. So NZ isn't *that* different in that respect. Plus in many of those countries have underground ducting that is reused unlike NZ which makes a massive impact on costs. Last of all much of it gets run by the government so issues with the RMA doesn't apply. Sent from my HTC Wildfire S on Telecom's XT mobile network. ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mauricio Freitas" To: "dean(a)deanpemberton.com" , "Peter Lambrechtsen" Cc: "nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz" Subject: [nznog] New Trans-Tasman submarine cable Date: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:19 am Peter was saying that SCX charges the same to NZ companies as they charge AU companies, even though one could obviously say there is a much bigger market in AU. In effect we are paying the (lower) Australian prices for the SCX data. Cheers Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) www.geekzone.co.nzhttp://www.geekzone.co.nz www.freitasm.comhttp://www.freitasm.com www.twitter.com/freitasmhttp://www.twitter.com/freitasm -----Original Message----- From: nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz [mailto:nznog-bounces(a)list.waikato.ac.nz] On Behalf Of Dean Pemberton Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:58 To: Peter Lambrechtsen Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] New Trans-Tasman submarine cable On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:

How are prices high when it costs the same to land data on SCCN NZ-US as it does AU-US and there is 3 cables going into AU?

Sorry I don't get what you're saying here. Probably just me being dense, could you expand?

NZ is a small population with a low wage economy spread across a very mountainous geography that the vast majority of people only use less than 30gb of data....

Thats true, but it changes. At one point it was impossible to imagine that people would even require 1gb/month. You want the speed of capability to keep pace with the speed of demand. The problem is that capability is always slower to accelerate.

Fix those issues and we will all have cheaper internet.

I don't necessarily want cheaper. I want one which matches my expectations more. =) Dean _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog