Recommended Action
We recommend that you:
87. Note that although there are some limited services on which New Zealand compares favourably with other OECD countries, in general there is a significant gap between New Zealand pricing performance and that of countries in the top half of the OECD.
88. Note that relative performance in residential broadband service, assessed by use of a non-standard benchmark comparison methodology, was ranked in the top quartile of OECD relative performance, but that broadband uptake remains low compared to other OECD countries.
89. Note that New Zealand broadband service pricing developments and uptake continue to be mainly focused on services that have a maximum upstream speed of 128 kbps.
90. Note that advanced residential and small business user broadband telecommunications services with an extensive geographic coverage are becoming more widely available in a number of OECD countries.
91. Note that advanced broadband service packages for residential and small business users, such as so-called multiplay service packages, are not generally available in New Zealand.
92. Note that a draft of this report was provided to Telecom, TelstraClear, Vodafone and TUANZ and a number of changes were made to reflect their comments.
93. Agree that this report be publicly released (excluding confidential information).
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