Cunliffe at Telco Day 2008
Am spending all day at TUANZ’s Telecommunications Day 2008. Heard from all the Telco CEOs in the morning and now the Minister is speaking.
He said the aspiration is to have Fibre to the Home within a decade, which means by 2018. That means both major parties are saying they want fibre to the home with National targeting 2014 and Labour 2018. I personally am not too worried about the time-frames (2014 is very ambitious) so long as there is a co-ordinated plan with open access policies.
There was no funding announcement today, as many expected. But he did say a package will be announced in the near future. There will be great interest in that package – both the funding but also the policy. He was very critical of National’s proposal, so again the details of the Government’s proposals will be interesting.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Sounds like another “me too” coming up from the Red Team!!
May 8th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
OT
Kiwis Doomed
http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/weblog/comments/kiwis_doomed/
May 8th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Surprise, both major parties want to spend our money!
May 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
NZ cant afford ‘fibre to the home’. Australias government backed scheme is only ‘fibre to the cabinet’.
And yet the urban sprawl around cities like Auckland has many upper income in rural areas who dont have broadband at all( and being say 5km from the cabinets mean they probably never will. ) These are obviously going to be left out but others in say small towns up to 1000 people should have speeds up to 24Mb/s ( or ADSL2+).
And what happened to all those saying enough with these wires ( fibre or copper) wireless is the way.
remember too that the first alternative to telecom fibre network was run down rail lines under a STATE owned structure
May 8th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
NZ cant afford ‘fibre to the home’.
No no ghostie, NZ just can’t afford Labour.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hold on isn’t that a HUGE FLIP FLOP? Why is that not the leading headline on Stuff? Wasn’t this rubbish policy written by telecom a few weeks ago? Prats.
Oh and the usual WTF are you on about GWW3 applies.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
There’s a whole lot that could be added to this list that Bogusnews compiled around the end of February – National policies, endorsed or adopted by Labour
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/02/national-lite.html
Flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flop………………………
May 8th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
It was a pity Cunliffe spent so long bagging the opposition. This stuff is just too important for political point scoring.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
have you read any of nationals leading lights ( apart from key) speeches:
Opening Address to the New Zealand Drillers Association AGM
Mr Chairman, thank you for your kind invitation to be present at your Annual General Meeting this morning.
I say at the outset that I can’t help recognising that the Drillers Association has a considerable amount in common with the current government. Both of you, it would appear, take great joy in digging holes for yourselves.
Thats gerry brownlee if it really maters
http://www.national.org.nz/Article.aspx?ArticleID=10900
[DPF: Seriously off topic - 10 demerits]
May 8th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
GWW – WTF does that have to do with Labour copying National’s fibre policy?
May 8th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Damn, now we have two political partys fighting to hand billions
of dollars over to private companies.
What happened to the private business model where if the
model is good enough the money can be raised by the companies.
I notice the rural sector will still be sucking on the hind tit for
broadband.
Jeez, more corporate welfare and that from both the Nats and Labour
Oh, I wonder, who will own the fibre, or is it to be a gift from
the taxpayer to Telecom and co ?
May 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Cunliffe’s a Cabbage