ISP Survey
August 30th, 2005 at 8:47 am by David FarrarStats NZ have done their first survey of ISPs in NZ. InternetNZ helped suggest questions. Some interesting results:
* 1.24 million customers of 66 ISPs with 80% of customers being residential.
* 65% of accounts are dialup (which suggests 81% of residential customers are still on dialup)
* 90% of ISPs offer spam filtering, with 77% doing it for free and 13% charging for it
* 86% offer virus filtering
* Only 36% offer content filtering
* The largest barriers to growth were the strength of competition followed by the telecommunications regulatory environment. Cost of international bandwidth also a big issue.
August 30th, 2005 at 10:53 am
It is a bit of a mystery to me why I keep hearing people in NZ talking about this country being used as a testbed for innovative new products because it is so advanced. Maybe that used to be true, but comparing the dialup and broadband takeup figures to the UK where: “Broadband connections are increasing at a rate of more than 60,000 every week. Broadband now represents more than a third of all internet connections.” NZ doesn’t look so hot.
What is National’s policy on local loop unbundling David?
PS Source: http://ofcom.org.uk/media/mofaq/telecoms/bb_faq/?a=87101
Vote:August 30th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Wow.. that’s a small % on Broadband… I dunno the number in Oz, where most of the NZ populations resides
– but I’d suspect it to be much, much higher… we have a good saturartion and knowledge of Broadband and ADSL technology. In fact, there are currenty tests in Sth Aust for ADSL 2 and current ISPs are shipping compatible future-proof modems to all new Broadband connections. Why is there such a small up take of BB technology in NZ? Are many exchanges not upgraded?
Vote:August 30th, 2005 at 11:25 am
Sadly it is the same as Labour’s
Vote:August 30th, 2005 at 1:03 pm
M More….
The take-up on broadband in NZ is low because the rates charged versus the speed/GB limits offered are woefully high for large chunks of the population to justify… The cheapest option for me is over three times the price of my unlimited dial-up, has a 1GB cap, and is only 256k speed.
Its got nothing to do with technical ability and everything to do with high prices and lack of competition…
Vote:August 30th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
For the record, I pay the equivalent of about 46 NZD here in Tokyo for a 12M ADSL connection.
Vote:Of course with ADSL your mileage varies. In my previous apartment I was get around 7000Kbps, but after shifting to a different part of town it’s down to 1500 Kbps.
Even Optical Fibre is cheap here though, so I may upgrade sometime (winter maybe)
September 2nd, 2005 at 1:19 am
Sounds like a regulator is needed. Does wonders for the market, been reducing our mobile rates in the UK year by year. Telecom was well-versed technically in ADSL when I had something to do with them back in 1997. Amazing how slow the roll-out has been. Probably Telecom up to its interconnection/exchange tricks again. I’m sure in the 1990s I heard one of the market dogmatists that abound in NZ rabbiting on about the incredible competition that would result after the sale of Telecom. Maybe best to send it all to court for 5 years and spend millions on it
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