Posted November 5th, 2008 by peter
We do!!, and no doubt most businesses do. Our conservative estimate is that we could improve productivity by 10%. To be fair, we are not too badly off compared to some. Telecom installed a couple of years ago a fibre cable that runs from the Stoke exchange in Arapiki Road to a roadside cabinet on [...]
Tags: , broadband, fibre, nelson loop
Posted April 22nd, 2008 by peter
National party leader John Key today announced that a National lead government would invest $1.5 billion in a fibre "ultra-fast" broadband network. The idea is to have fibre to 75% of New Zealanders. Key says that in the first six years, priority will be given to businesses premises, schools, health facilities and then to the [...]
Tags: broadband, fibre, internet speed, network tasman, telecom
Posted April 3rd, 2008 by peter
The New Zealand Institute is suggesting that a single company owned by existing tele communications companies, utilities, local government and other private investors be given monolopy ownership of last mile connections – that is connections between exchanges or street cabinets and user premises.
Tags: broadband, fibre, new zealand