Don Gould
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Re:What services will the community provide? - 2006/04/04 11:57
Personally I'm interested in a number of things. I see a number of problems in the NZ market that people moan about regually but do little to fix.
There are cheaper ways to get more of us on high speed internet access than the Telecom and Telstra offerings. Problem for the telcos it that it's simply not in their nature.
There is a lack of low cost access to open source software. While the telcos could provide this, they don't, it's not in their nature.
There is no high speed internet access available to the entire city for quality internet gaming. While the telcos could provide this they haven't. The closest Telecom came was jetgameing and that has gone now (IIRC).
The price of basic telephone service keeps going up. Telecom made it very clear a couple of years back that a major cause of this was the fact that the public keep trying to use the telephone network for internet service delivery and that was causing undue expensive load on the network requiring more money. We need to get the internet off the phone network, build a new internet network and put a phone network on it - much cheaper.
We have a duopoly currently. There is no reason for for these providers to be inovative at present. They have trouble justifying why they do anything in the way of change. This is stalling their own growth. A competitive inovative market place needs competitors who are inovating.
As fast as we build a network someone comes in, buys it then wreaks it, at least that's an observation that some have made. Agree, dissagree, I don't really care. What I do care about is the fact that the technology that is the internet was developed to allow anyone and everyone to build and have their own parts of the network, share access and content.
In New Zealand the internet is owned and controlled primarlly by one major supplier - Telecom. Telcom say 'we're going to make is faster and cheaper', Telstra Clear drop their price, up their speed and up their data. Telecom say we're not peering anymore, Telstra Clear stop peering. You tell me who's calling the shots.
Guys I'm 35 years old, I'm not rich, I'm not superman, I'm Don.
I cann't change the entire internet but I can change the very small bit that's in my back yard.
The purpose of this site is to tell the community what I'm doing, how I'm doing it and invite you to do the same if you choose to.
I hope this goes some way to answering your question.
Cheers Don
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