Comments on: On Peering in New Zealand https://nztelco.com/2012/02/06/on-peering-in-new-zealand/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jonbrewer https://nztelco.com/2012/02/06/on-peering-in-new-zealand/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:53:38 +0000 http://nztelco.com/content/?p=442#comment-50 In reply to Mike Hughes.

Hi Mike,

I think Pacific Fibre is going to blow the market wide open.

iiNet is Australia’s second largest DSL provider, and has committed to Pacific Fibre. They briefly owned iHug, before selling it to Vodafone NZ in 2006. I would not be surprised if iiNet get back in to New Zealand the second Pacific Fibre lights up.

Vodafone NZ currently uses Vocus for international connectivity. They signed a ten-year deal with Pacific Fibre that will move them up the food chain to being a retailer with their own international connectivity – on the same level as Telecom NZ and TelstraClear.

These two businesses alone have the scale and ability to change the shape of broadband in New Zealand. I look forward to it!

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]]> By: Mike Hughes https://nztelco.com/2012/02/06/on-peering-in-new-zealand/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:14:20 +0000 http://nztelco.com/content/?p=442#comment-49 Do you think that trans-Pacific competition from the Pacific Fibre cable, when ready for service, will do enough to change the situation?

To me, it seems like the arrival on the APE of a few International players with relaxed peering policies (i.e. happy to peer with the larger NZ independant ISPs), along with some cheaper international transit, could be what’s needed to disrupt the oligopoly and change the landscape?

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]]> By: Glen https://nztelco.com/2012/02/06/on-peering-in-new-zealand/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:28:28 +0000 http://nztelco.com/content/?p=442#comment-48 Thanks for the map, and the explanation. I wish more people understood how the big ISPs in NZ slow down the local net for all of us 😦

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