National Fibre needed for New Zealand
The New Zealand Institute has argued strongly for a national fibre to the home rollout, and has identified national economic benefits from broadband in the range of $2.7 to $4.4 billion per year with further upside potential possible. It has called for a New Zealand government shift in policy from encouraging broadband penetration to increasing the speed of the network, by investing in a fibre network.
It argues that there is a significant cost to the nation if it waits and the longer that New Zealand waits, the more economic value it will forego. Thus it argues, New Zealand should approach the investment in fibre with a sense of urgency. Each year of inaction leads to lost benefits: a five year delay it believes would cost the nation around $NZ16 billion.
New Zealand’s current Digital Strategy calls for at least 90% of the population to have at least 5Mb/s by 2010. The Institute would like to see this goal shift to rolling out fibre to 75% of the population by 2018.
The Institute has begun a two-part project to develop a broadband strategy for New Zealand. The first stage is to define a national aspiration for broadband. The next stage will focus on defining a specific pathway to fibre. It has released, a draft document representing phase one of this strategy: ‘Defining a broadband aspiration: how much does broadband matter and what does New Zealand need’, to stimulate discussion of the issues and to solicit feedback before releasing its final report.
It claims that its bottom-up estimates are in line with other studies into the economic benefits of fast broadband, both for Australia and those conducted for other countries.
See also: New Zealand - Infrastructure - NGNs and FttH.
‘State of the Industry’ Roundtables with Paul Budde
Auckland - Monday 3rd December 2007
Wellington - Tuesday 4th December 2007
Theme: New Zealand Telco Market moving into 2008
Presentations and discussions will mainly concentrate on the latest results of our new New Zealand report that we will publish at the same time.
I will bring you up to date regarding the latest research data and, perhaps more importantly, analyse the market with you – highlighting the areas where opportunities exist.
Agenda
| 09.30 – 10.00 | Arrival and coffee |
| 10.00 – 10.15 | Welcome, introduction of delegates |
| 10.15 – 11.15 | Analyses of the New Zealand Telecommunications Industry (Revenues, Market shares, Trends and Developments) |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Morning coffee |
| 11.45 – 12.15 | Analyses of Telecom, TelstraClear, Vodafone and the other players in the market. |
| 12.15 – 12.45 | Telecoms access & regulatory.
Regional telecommunications. Statistics, Trends and developments in fixed voice, mobile. |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Light lunch. |
| 13.45 – 14.15 | Statistics, Trends and developments in ISP, Broadband & data markets. |
| 14.15 – 14.45 | Emerging Digital Media Market.
Conclusions. |
| 14.45 – 15.10 | Afternoon coffee. |
| 15.00 – 16.30 | Roundtable discussion. |
| 16.30 | Close. |
Cost:
$425 per person (excluding GST) – this includes morning/afternoon coffee and lunch
Venues:
Auckland – Monday 3rd December
Duxton Hotel Auckland, 100 Greys Ave, Auckland
Wellington – Tuesday 4th December
Duxton Hotel Wellington, 170 Wakefield Street, Wellington
Booking:
Online registration
Telephone: 02 4998 8144
Email: pbc@budde.com.au
