1. Speak, 2. Think » government http://www.punk.co.nz Speaking before thinking since 1981 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:06:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Submission on the Broadband Investment Initiative http://www.punk.co.nz/2009/04/27/submission-on-the-broadband-investment-initiative/ http://www.punk.co.nz/2009/04/27/submission-on-the-broadband-investment-initiative/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:41:01 +0000 Kris Price http://www.punk.co.nz/?p=96 I haven’t been doing so well with the one post per week goal lately, but here is my submission on the Government’s Broadband Investment Initiative.

The proposal seems to believe that wholesale unbundled dark fibre is the best method to serve all customers, which is absolutely incorrect. The negative impacts identified in this submission are caused by this, and forcing LFCs to engineer the networks in such a way.

Unbundled dark fibre is only suitable for a small percentage of customers and is completely unsuitable for the remaining customers that make up the vast majority. It is important that this distinction is understood, and that the proposal targets the distinct needs of these two categories of customer.

The full 21 page submission is available in PDF format here.

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