And what do you think? The answer is obvious, and I am surprised that you asked? Hint? Most blog commenters gravitate towards sites in their own countries. I think that our NCEA students would figure that out by indirect inference, ie, If A is a kind of B and C is some kind of B, therefore it would be true to conclude that A is also a kind of C. See, you can link A and C indirectly via logical deductions, even though there is no direct link between the two, ie, A & C have obvious observable relations. More here.

I comment on overseas blogs as well , mainly in US (tech-blogs, such as Read-Write-Web, TechCrunch, Practical Ecommerce, O’Reilly Radar, etc,…). You can search my name in those sites where my comments are regarded by readers in those blogs as insightful and interesting (check it out yourself, and don’t take my word for it). I make comments in technology, finance, economics, science (Physics, mathematics, statistics, Climate Change), politics, mysticism, computing, engineering and a whole lots of other topics, you can tell that from the Google list you’ve just linked to in your previous message.

Finally, it showed that you’ve made 737 comments here at DPF, that is almost 7 times more that my total comments (115), may I ask why you’re not commenting on any other topics in the blogo-sphere apart from political ones? I mean, do you comment on your profession’s different blog sites (accountings, lawyer, or whatever) ? Why do you hang around too much here at DPF? Is your interest in politics only?

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en-GB&q=Falafulu+Fisi&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Just curious.

DPF , Your post here is disingenuous, you bloody know the reason for poor performance of Telecom, instead you chose to ignore it, because you’ve been a strong proponent of its dismemberment.

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In our view, Telecom’s performance languishes behind that of other key telecommunications players in the international market, and we believe this is partly due to an unclear and outdated strategy.

No, Telecom’s strategy was working well, until Minister David Cunliffe chopped them into bits.

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Shareholders and customers remain dissatisfied with Telecom’s progress,

No, it should have been stated that Shareholders and customers remain dissatisfied with Commissar Minister David Cunliffe for nationalising of what is theirs, without paying compensations.

Start blaming the government for its interference in private property and not blame Telecom.

The reality is that Telecom is NOT JUST Chorus, retail and wholesale here in New Zealand.

It incorporates AAPT in Australian which with a current book value of less than $500 million is delivering a significant return on Capital. (The fact that the past management, under the leadership of Roderick Dean as first CEO then Chairman, paid far too much for the business is no reflection on the current management team, who are doing good work turning it around.

It Incorporates Gen-i. New Zealand’s fastest growing ICT services firm, with significant upside potential across the ditch that is just starting to be realised as revenue enhancement.

It also incorporates a number of international service ventures, operated out of London, that have vast long term potential.

What you are seeing here is a ‘breakup’ ploy on the lines of many undertaken in the 1080s. None of them did any long-term good for anyone except the Merchant Bankers and Investment advisers, who took vast fees and opportunistic profits from the exercise. If the original owners of the vertically integrated companies, broken up and sold off piecemeal in the ’80s, had held on to them they would be far wealthier than they are today. Vertical integration enables a sensible ‘end to end’ strategy to be followed, that is the best approach – particularly in a utility market, which Telecommunications has become. If you doubt that, look at what Vodafone is doing!