The New Zealand telecommunications market has a number of problems that people moan about regularly but do little to fix.
There are cheaper ways to get all of us on high speed internet access than the current industry offerings.
There is a lack of low cost access to the internet. While the telecommunications industry 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 telecommunications industry could provide this they haven't. The closest Telecom came was jet-gamming and that has gone.
The price of basic telephone service keeps going up. Telecom made it very clear that a major cause of this is the fact that the public keep trying to use the telephone network for internet service delivery and that this is causing undue expensive load on the network requiring more money.
As New Zealanders, we need to get the internet off the phone network, build a new internet network and put a phone network on it - much cheaper.
New Zealand has a duopoly currently. There is no reason for providers to be innovative at present.
Big telecommunication providers have trouble justifying why they do anything in the way of change. This is stalling their growth as much as New Zealand’s growth.
A competitive innovative market place needs competitors who are innovating.
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.
The technology that is the internet was developed to allow anyone and everyone to build and have their own parts of the network to share access and content.
In New Zealand the internet is owned and controlled primarily 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 can’t change the entire internet but I can change the very small bit that's in my back yard.
The purpose of this project 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.
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