Comments on: Don’t subsidise fibre with copper

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:17:36 +0000

Scott was Orcon boss and is now Korida NZ Chief Executive with Orcon being folded into Kordia – try and keep up Rex.

Anyway, good to see DPF not afraid to criticise Key on this issue.

By: Rex Widerstrom

Rex Widerstrom — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:04:54 +0000

David Garrett notes:

I believe they are “swingeing” cuts…but hey, who cares about spelling other than crusty old farts?

Well this crusty old fart just about had apoplexy when he read that. I got a mental image of Chorus executives swinging from the ropes, Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-like, wielding cutlasses.

Stuff seems to have replaced the story DPF quoted with one that’s markedly different – calling Scott Bartlett “Kordia New Zealand chief executive” rather than “Orcon boss” for instance.

That seems to be the new paradigm in news coverage – throw up any old mess, then sub-edit at leisure. Meanwhile a good portion of your readership have absorbed the wrong information.

By: berend

berend — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:52:46 +0000

Sonny Blount +1

By: berend

berend — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:52:15 +0000

DPF: I’m a huge fan of the fibre rollout, but we shouldn’t try and get people to move to fibre by having copper priced artificially high.

One government department fighting with another. Law of unintended consequences, and all that.

John Key is no Bestiat, but we already knew that.

Another National failure trying to outsocialist the socialist.

And that same party is berating Labour for wanting to built 100,000 houses.

By: dime

dime — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 23:18:04 +0000

Dime has fibre. Its a tocuh quicker than adsl2. costs more. Dime’s thrilled.

By: Sonny Blount

Sonny Blount — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:49:36 +0000

We can’t have anything interfere with the ‘Great Fibre Leap Forward’. If the market won’t comply, we must use the government to implement our infallible and superior plans.

By: barry

barry — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:20:37 +0000

Jeez – whats wrong with these bums. Dont they know that rule that says something like – “the speed doubles every x months, or the price is cut in half every x months”

Surely they knew when this whole thing was set up that prices will be a lot less when its up and running than it was when they started.

By: David Garrett

David Garrett — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:14:28 +0000

I believe they are “swingeing” cuts…but hey, who cares about spelling other than crusty old farts?

By: anonymouse

anonymouse — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:08:25 +0000

Why not….. fibre is the future and the faster it is taken up the more services will be offered, have fibre in front of everyone’s gate but having people clinging onto copper is a strategically bad move……

One possible alternative is to allow Chorus to turn off copper service at a certain point in time ( the Government did it with Digital TV), to promote Fibre Take up

Also Chorus are funding a large chunk of the roll out ( presumably with existing profits), if you reduce that money, then they will expect the government to increase its funding…..