On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 09:03, Yuri de Groot wrote: > Roger De Salis wrote: > >> Probably not for a long time. > >> It's a *huge* capital investment to bring cable to a city. Probably > > > tens of millions. > > > >Not tens of millions, but certainly one or 1/2 of millions. > >The problem is the subsequent access of all the customers, > >which is much more money than the single cable to the city. > > I didn't mean bringing a single cable to a city. > I meant digging up every street to lay cable past every house, plus exchange > equipment, routers etc. > This would include resource consents for digging up the sidewalk everywhere. > Contractors etc.. > > Yuri I think telcos have a special status when it comes to digging things up. They don't need resource consents as far as I know. Anyone know for sure? But there is an interesting problem: Many / most neighbourhoods want underground wiring - which is vastly more expensive to install and maintain. In Wellington, it didn't help that the local newspaper owned shares in SKY TV (as did Telecom). They ran a campaign against the cabling....which in my eyes set new lows in overt conflict of interest. But it is expensive to lay the cable....and that's why TelstraClear isn't laying any more..... They wanted access to Telecom's local loop.....but the regulatory changes didn't give it to them. -- Steve Withers <swithers@mmp.org.nz> ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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