[AusNOG] Complexity is not an excuse for an industry-wide cop-out (was Re: Conroy quit.)

[Tony Wicks]

On 19 September 2016 at 19:59, Jared Brown <ausftth at mail.com <mailto:ausftth at mail.com> > wrote:


  Excluding overseas bandwidth, is there some reason New Zealand can't have good broadband for $55 per month? Several north European countries with similar land and population sizes seem to manage.

 

European countries that are neither surrounded by vast oceans nor half a world away from major global population centres...

 

Actually the fixed cost of the copper or fibre last mile is the biggest portion of the cost by far (i.e $41.19/month for basic dsl)    http://www.comcom.govt.nz/the-commission/media-centre/media-releases/detail/2015/commission-releases-final-decision-on-wholesale-broadband-prices

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20160920/70bd2410/attachment.html>