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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 04 November 2008 | |
  
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TUANZ envisages the Digital Network Architecture encompassing a number of broad dimensions: - Business – how capability is practically made available and usable on a commercial basis to industry; - Management – how appropriate service levels are defined, assured and delivered; - Security – how the national interest is protected from a growing internal and external cyber threat; and - Technical – how physical and logical layers of the transport infrastructure are integrated to form a national connectivity fabric. It claims that "Domination of the telecommunications sector by a handful of powerful, vertically-integrated companies delivering infrastructure and services is not the way of the future and would provide a poor outcome for New Zealanders. Far preferable is a rational mix of infrastructure investment by industry, passive long-term investors, and central and local government." TUANZ is not proposing that government should allocate the right to invest, but that it should "declare a framework under which such a mix of investment can be optimised and managed for the security of investors and the benefit of users and the economy as a whole." It suggests that the telecommunications network of 2018 could include a mixture of: highly competitive parallel infrastructure in high-density areas such as CBDs, offering choice to users; fibre to the home along suburban streets, funded by local government or power lines companies and based on 'open access' principles; fibre to farms, rural businesses, communities and marae and funded by rural service companies and/or consortia of communities such as farmers; fibre networks in new subdivisions, funded as part of the development, with access managed by body corporates or property managers; privately funded, fully competitive national and regional backhaul on heavy traffic routes; supplementary national and regional backhaul, including central and local government funding, founded on 'open access' principles. Its proposed National Digital Architecture would flesh out this list and include the principles that would balance investor security against optimal end-user benefit in a national context. Meanwhile, The Internet Association of New Zealand has posted on its web site responses to a questionnaire sent to all political parties. It has received responses from: Democrats for Social Credit; the Progressive Party; the Workers' Party; the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party; Labour; and The Greens. The National Party declined to respond to specific questions, instead referring to published policies on its web site . It said it had "released detailed policy on broadband (NZ$1.5 billion to see FTTH to 75 percent of homes over five years plus a doubling of the Broadband Challenge money" and "very detailed policies about copyright law reform (See Arts and Culture policy), and "Policies to help low income people" over several portfolios. NZ First simply provided a link to policies on its web site. According to Wikipedia, "Since 1999, Labour has dominated various, mainly minority, governments (first with the Alliance; since 2002 with the Progressive Party; and since 2005 also supported by other parties outside coalition)." |
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