To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (31441 ) 9/22/2009 7:55:48 AM From: Maurice Winn 1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 46821 Vector has built a little island of no fibre around our street and a couple of nearby streets. <http://www.vectorfibre.co.nz/sites/default/files/pdf/vectorfibre-coverage-auckland-south.pdf > You'd have to zoom in and know where to look. But as you can see, there is quite a lot of fibre already. There seems little point in spending $billions more if they don't get the existing fibre going. Perhaps it's hidden somewhere, but I can't find anywhere in vectorfibre.co.nz that mentions price. I know that dollars are icky things that serious marketers don't mention [price destruction, commoditisation, market segmentation and all those good things], but it makes it hard to buy something if people have no idea what it costs. Normally, if price isn't mentioned, it's because it's so absurdly expensive. This seems to be right: <Vector's primary role here is as a physical-layer infrastructure play > They are playing at physical layer infrastructure for various things [gas, electricity and fibre]. There is some other business they have, such as Treescape, which they need to cut trees away from power lines, so they presumably sell services too. Yes, it's a peculiar human characteristic [and other animals have the same feelings] to get angry when pirates show up to rob, pillage, rape and plunder. < I understand the sense of 'violation' that naturally arises when one's investments (in either or both time and money) are threatened by outside forces. > Mao used to organize countryside "re-education" for recalcitrant property owners [fatal all too often]. Russians were regularly re-educated too [involving Siberian educational facilities]. Mqurice