Future Broadband and Fibre?
The New Zealand Institute recently released it's final report on broadband where is suggests the only way for New Zealand to get a world-class broadband service is serious investment into a fibre up to the last mile.
Reports in the media have questioned the conclusions and in some cases called the plan "myopic". It seems that the Institutes direction has some implicit backing as another recent report, this time from the OECD, suggests future broadband requirements will dictate 50Mbps connections, something that may indeed point to the need for a fibre backend.
Telecom has said in recent announcements that planned upgrades will get NZ's broadband services to 10Mbps by 2012 for 80% of the population. Unfortunately this means we will still be 40Mbps short. Maybe the estimate of 50Mbps is wrong or maybe we will yet again be doomed to the bottom half of the OECD?
Reports in the media have questioned the conclusions and in some cases called the plan "myopic". It seems that the Institutes direction has some implicit backing as another recent report, this time from the OECD, suggests future broadband requirements will dictate 50Mbps connections, something that may indeed point to the need for a fibre backend.
Telecom has said in recent announcements that planned upgrades will get NZ's broadband services to 10Mbps by 2012 for 80% of the population. Unfortunately this means we will still be 40Mbps short. Maybe the estimate of 50Mbps is wrong or maybe we will yet again be doomed to the bottom half of the OECD?
Labels: broadband, New Zealand Institute, OECD, Telecom
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