"Could NZ be the place where talent wants to live?" Would you want to live in a place where an optical fibre connection exists in every building, like water, electricity and copper telephony? When the LFCs can't make more money without more fibre, they'll lay more fibre.
Mobile is a side-show and depends utterly on optical fibre backhaul. They're a free-space to optical fibre gateway and nothing more. Their intermodal competition is fierce. Not so in copper or optical fibre. Four regional Layer 1&2 exclusive LFCs will diverge without national
unbundlers and create deadweight loss in coördination costs for RSPs. LFCs keep the founding GPON frequency (#UBI communications) to lease or operate and there's at least one other NGO λ competing nationally with them.
IPv6, Founders is subsidised to free and beyond for the LFCs' return on regulated asset base. Its universality simplifies delivery of all services, with #VRM controls at the edge for users to decide themselves or in free association with free speech. Free to & free from.
I sincerely believe this is the vision we are squandering with quibbles about Part 4 open access wholesale anchored by basic telephony and basic broadband. You lay an ether once, this is creation of a new world. This we need to get right at the start, not forebear.
$929,000,000 is trivial and fungible. A new foundational home connection is something you do once, ever. If there is to be forbearance, let it be on the money, not on the implementation of the future.
