Or should the title of this weeks blog be 'Business Hampered By Lack Of Providers'? 

I live in a country where entire city suburbs can't get broadband, people have unused telephone lines just so you can get broadband and the providers are just looking after minority group interests and not New Zealanders like you and me.

The sweetest sound I've heard this week is my neighbour calling her telephone/broadband provider and saying "Hi, I'd like to cancel all my services please".

Our neighbours were paying their provider $1200 a year just to get a 128k/2mbit broadband service with a 1 gb data cap. 

Now they've got a 100mbit local neighbourhood network with their own personal 54mbit wifi node and a 3.5mbit link to the net.

This is going to cost them a pizza once a month. 

Yes, rather than pay a telco, our neighbours are going to be supporting Think Community Networks LES project by sponsoring the team with a pizza.  If you would like to sponsor a pizza then please just drop me a line.

Yes, I am on a mission to rid New Zealand of city suburbs without broadband!

Suburbs like Christchurch's South Shore are damaging business growth because people in those suburbs cann't use the internet from home to develop their own business ideas and are blocked from being customers of other businesses who are using the Internet. 

While I was writting this blog my wife even pointed out to me the impact on house prices in that suburb because they can't get broadband.  I would be interested to know what impact having a gigibit network in the suburb will have on housing prices.