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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Fibre, what's that?
A government on its last legs promised FTTP, but they knew they wouldn't have to deliver; they couldn't even install pink batts in peoples rooves without killing the workers... etc.
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Sounds like a regular
but pretty usual when a government has too much say.
Here the countrywide fiber rollout (and 4G mobile - then 5G I assume - to remote small communities and farms) was set up so that the wholesalers are private companies with non-overlapping areas; one (Chorus) has most of the infrastructure though, the other three having the rest between them. Has, all in all, been working out very well and is now well on completion wise.
But that was set up when we had a government keen to keep their fingers out of the actual implementation detail of things they did not know, knew how to forge commercial and private partnership agreements, etc. Fortunately it would now be pretty much impossible to ever unravel it by our current keen on meddling ones full of fine words only (Google "Kiwibuild" for their present disastrous effort at infrastructure).
I know that's not much help to you, but I thought it might send you off to the whiskey bottle for solace now that you know it can be done somewhere else, and for free to the end user
