you/yr blog..

are nothing but a sad joke..

a little echo chamber..

with only sycophantic comments allowed..?

bah..!

bye..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Thanks that is a win win Trevor

Nationalised network and private competition of services supplied on that network = best of all worlds.

Indeed, not to mention it could potentially turn into a direct source of income for the government if managed well, and if not it will at least be a good wealth-enabler for the country.

The choice is between a Telecom-led rollout (unitary authority) and a regional approach with involvement by electricity lines companies.

Or the third option, which you seem to be categorically ruling out even though it’s the cheapest, is to re-nationalise the network. Multiple networks cost more – more environmental damage to mine the resources to make them, more electricity to run them, more bureaucrats to administer them (no, I’m not the type of person who whines about bureaucrats, administration is an important job, but I don’t think that we should have any more than we need) and more dead weight loss to the economy in the form of profit.

Nationalised network and private competition of services supplied on that network = best of all worlds.

To search the questions Clare has asked of the Minister of Communications & IT, start at:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Business/QWA/

It’s so easy to do.

The quality of life in NZ is exceptional. Look at the Mercer rankings:

Auckland comes 4th in the world (up from 5th last year)
Sydney is 10th (no change)
Wellington 12th (no change)
Brisbane 34th (no change).

I was recently offered a huge pay rise to live in Australia – but its because of my family that we remained in NZ.

I thought Labour’s plans were possibly as good as it gets for New Zealand, not perhaps the perfect plan but given limitations on budget and our population spread it was probably all we can do at this stage. I remain utterly frustrated by Joyce’s apparent ‘deer in the headlights’ stance. I say that because I think they are paralysed with indecision here, their lack of leadership experience is sorely showing. They need to (wo)man up and do something.

philu – you can talk about child poverty all you like – but don’t try to hijack a conversation about broadband to do it and don’t play the suppressed victim card, it’s hollow. And if you can get Kiwiblog’s commentators to give a damn about child poverty then I have some water that needs turning into wine.

For us to have a similar per capita investment we would need to invest $4.5 billion which would relieve a lot of the urban/rural question…

I even know where we can get the money from… The debt inflated NLTP, the plan is to spend over $10 billion in the next decade on State Highway’s… Real smart considering climate change and peak oil… Surely just over $7 billion will be sufficiently stupid and we can invest the excess in something emminently more important, this…

This one of the reasons young people like myself are looking at Perth, Brisbane etc with longing eyes and why the “plan” to catch Aussie by 2025 is nothing but hot air…

A Vogel-esqe investment in sustainable transport, power and fibre is needed and a party with the courage to deal with the huge structural problems in the economy if we are ever to start climbing and overtaking other OECD countries again… A deep recession is the perfect time to employ people and make this investment, the Americans are still relying on much of FDR’s infrastructure…

My patience is running out with NZ when I look at Australia’s investments in this and rail in particular, leaving NZ would break my heart but it’s getting to the point where I can’t justify to my future children staying here…