Posts by Gareth Ward
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At any rate higher than director of the WTF.
How are we measuring "higher"?
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the kind of cranial buzzing noise that seems to constitute thought for Garrett
Heh.
Re the Highest Office - wouldn't Moore have that as DG of the WTO?
Not to belittle in anyway a pretty amazing posting like this. And I really don't put it past her to make SecGen either, you somewhat get the feeling that she's now just starting a new phase of political life (she's only mid50s at a guess?) -
A lovely blog; my key takeaway? This is now my desktop background
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Perhaps he meant Quantum Leap
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I think the point is they have effectively invested on mass for the eventual WiMax rollout and the forward tax loss will help get that business running stable for a lesser outlay.
No idea about the feasiblity of that business though. -
Re Woosh: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/2300968/Losses-now-Wooshs-biggest-asset
I think they're a bit 50/50 at the moment but then they always have been!
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NZ broadband dramatically improved, says new report
When I speedtested the other night I was getting 9Mbps down and it said the average speedtest for NZ was something like 3Mbps. That's pretty impressive as far as I'm concerned but not sure of the nature of speedtesters...
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Good call on NAIT by the way Evan.
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It will be interesting to see who are the private parties in these deals.
In their existing structures Telecom, Voda, Telstra and even Vector are all currently banned from my reading of it (IIRC Vector own a vertically integrated telco unit that sells data over fibre but that could possibly be easily adjusted to this model) . Transfield, Downer, Fulton Hogan etc may want to build it but owning it would be a big change for them.So who's going to do it?
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Rick, I agree on the anti cross involvement similarities - but is the 10% ownership limit you refer to the limit in the electricity industry? Or is that what is proposed for this fibre governance? I thought I just read "non-majority voting rights" in the fibre document.
I would be pretty stunned if Telecom disposed of retail - seems to me their new mindset is much more heavily wedded to that end of things than the asset management side.
Thanks for the Telecom submission - it's what I was referring to earlier. So clearly they have a view around Chorus as a separate business, but you're right - the regulatory framework mentioned to make it work are substantial. However, I wonder if many of those same hurdles are going to exist anyway in the governance of the PPP regional fibre companies?