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Another good development yesterday in the fibre broadband project. As I blogged Telecom put forward a couple of constructive proposals.

Vector announced yesterday:

A group made up of lines companies and local fibre companies has been formed to support the Government’s vision of introducing ultra-fast fibre broadband to New Zealand.

Vector Chief Executive Simon Mackenzie said that the NZ Regional Fibre Group brought together the collective wisdom and experience of several different regional operators with expertise in open access networks.
“We welcome the opportunity to submit on the Government’s Broadband Investment proposal which will leap frog New Zealand to world class broadband.
This is also very exciting, and shows good leadership. Potentially lines companies have the ability to do some areas a lot cheaper than telcos.
Members of the New Zealand Regional Fibre Group include Vector, Aurora, Northpower, Waikato based WEL Networks, Unison, PowerNet, Christchurch City Networks, Network Tasman, and Velocity Networks.
That covers a fair bit of NZ!
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2 Responses to “Vector and co”

  1. virtualmark (1,179) Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am

    If these guys can do more with the Government’s $1.5b than anyone else then I’d be very happy to see them get the money.

    But unfortunately I can’t help thinking that they’ll have to spend a lot of time and money duplicating infrastructure like PoPs, cabinets, backhaul from cabinets to PoPs, ducts in streets etc that the current telcos already have in place … and then spend a lot more time and money running fibre down streets that already have telco infrastructure laid along them.

    While I’m sceptical of the business case for FTTH, it is clear that the Government is committed to putting $1.5b of our tax money into fibre. So I’m keen to see we get the best bang for the buck … in other words, see how our investment can deliver the best possible improvement in services. I struggle to see how that is going to come from people who are going to spend a lot of that money duplicating existing infrastructure in a “me too” kind of way.

  2. virtualmark (1,179) Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Interesting that Powerco is not a member of the NZ Regional Fibre Group. They are the second largest lines company in the country. Wonder what’s going on there?

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