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Benchmarking the Comparative Performance of New Zealand's Telecommunications Regime: 30 June 2005 Report

Resources and Networks Branch
[ Last Updated 13 January 2006 ]


2. This report summarises the pricing performance of the principal telecommunication services in the fixed network telecommunication services market, the cellular telephone services market and the developing broadband telecommunication services market.

3. Where applicable, the standard OECD tariff basket methodology was used to compare the price of Telecom New Zealand's telephone service prices with those in other OECD countries using Teligen price data as at February 2005.1 In other cases relevant price data was obtained from Point Topic2 and other sources. At present there is no OECD standard methodology for comparing broadband service plan pricing across countries.

4. Benchmarking is an imprecise comparison methodology and results must be treated with caution. In this report unless otherwise stated, the Ministry considers that small differences, for example <10%, should not be regarded as significant but that larger differences are likely to be significant especially where differences from OECD top half performance are substantial.

1 Teligen said that "The spreadsheets on the T-Basket disk have been updated with the tariffs presented to Teligen by the carriers up to the end of February 2005."

2 See Point-Topic [link to Point-Topic website].


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