Introduction
2. This report assesses the comparative performance of the New Zealand telecommunications services market in respect of prices applying in mid 2006 for key telecommunications services and the availability and/or uptake of key broadband services, prior to the regulatory reforms announced during 2006 and enacted in December 2006.
3. Where applicable, the standard OECD tariff basket methodology was used to compare the price of major telecommunications service providers with a nationwide reach with those in other OECD countries using Teligen price data as at August 2006. However, the leased line services were carried out using data as at May 2006. At present there is no OECD standard methodology for comparing broadband service plan pricing across countries. All data used in this report preceded the telecommunications regulatory reforms enacted in December 2006.
4. Benchmarking is an imprecise comparison methodology and results should be interpreted with caution. In this report unless otherwise stated, the Ministry considers that small differences, for example <10%, should not necessarily be regarded as significant but that larger differences are likely to be significant especially where differences from OECD top half performance are substantial.
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