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New Zealand wide fibre broadband monopoly proposed

Posted April 3rd, 2008 by peter

The New Zealand Institute is suggesting that a single company owned by existing tele communications companies, utilities, local government and other private investors be given monolopy ownership of last mile connections – that is connections between exchanges or street cabinets and user premises.

They say the company would be price regulated by government and would be required to give all service providers equal access to its network.

NZ Institute head Davi Skilling says "This is a service based competition, not infrastructure based competition". He says competing infrastructure will not work in NZ, where population is sparse, where it does in Hong Kong for example where the population is concentrated.

New Zealand Institute discussion paper is available here to download

Tags: broadband, fibre, new zealand