On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:45 PM, wrote:

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:06:52 -0800 From: Alastair Johnson To: Matthew Moyle-Croft Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] State of the IX. Message-ID: <4F28740C.40702(a)sneep.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 1/31/2012 2:54 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

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So, this means people like Amazon, Google, Limelight, Microsoft etc (ie. the big content players) won't ever setup inside you country. (Think how important they are these days in terms of bandwidth).

Valid points, although indicators have been that those operators are less likely to build directly into New Zealand anyway. As you point out,

As pointed out in one of the presentations at NZNOG, if Amazon doesn't come then Netflix can't come.