It’s a one man band. Literally.
Tom Atkinson set this entire ISP up. Made the logo just last night 😉
Creator of the AminoSeeNoEvil DNA visualisation, Tom Atkinson is a coder, international recording artist, drummer and composer based in Auckland. Learn about me at tomachi.co/about/
It started one day when I wrote this email to the government:
Hello,
But at $41 wholesale per fibre connection I realised it would not be possible and gave up on it.
I’d still need about 100 to 200 users and to rent servers and pay a massive bandwidth bill. But now that COVID-19 mass mysteria is making people work from home I figured maybe now is a better time to ask the government / commerce commision to legislate a bill that forces / asks Chorus to consider providing 2 or 3 new low speed fibre offerings, such as:
$14/month 640kbps CIR under heavy use burstable to 10 megabit symmetrical over fibre or VDSL
I’d then re-package that media into account plans with titles like $12/week and Pay What You Feel It’s Worth
- to be eligible the connection must either be:
- fibre which has been dark for say 3 months or more;
- existing user is outside the existing ISPs 24 month contract etc
- low band connection upgrades but not existing high band downgrades to the fibre media type
- move to a user from say 10/10 to 100/20 or 900/400 but not back without a 3 month dark fibre period
- existing ISP can allow their customers to request downgrade only if
- disallow paid marketing other than a website, email etc; use only word of mouth etc
The idea being not to cannabilise existing $41/month connections in the market where people are paying prices starting at about $70 to $80 per month which is a bit high for some. The speed I’m happy for Chorus to alter (make it 256kbps if you need to say for the $18/month media) but the monthly wholesale price is the key, in that any internet is better than no internet at all. Either that or bring back copper?
- members of parliament behind the idea + a bill
- potentially damages paid to Chorus for lost business but there is a lot of dark fibre out there
- able to switch between 1/1 and 10/10 quickly
- free from minimum terms
- support from MSD just in terms of referrals of business initially sufficient to get 200 customers
- a business loan (my company to source) to cover the Chorus $10,000 “bond for service”
- more of a business plan from myself
- customers
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