Telecommunications Act: Completion of broadband monitoring programme
Published02 Feb 2006
The Commerce Commission has completed its monitoring programme of uptake of residential broadband services provided or supported by Telecom New Zealand Limited.
The Commerce Commission has completed its monitoring programme of uptake of residential broadband services provided or supported by Telecom New Zealand Limited.
The monitoring programme tracks Telecom's performance against a target of 250,000 residential broadband connections on Telecom's fixed network by the end of 2005, of which more than a third (approximately 83,000) are supplied by Telecom's wholesale customers.
As at 31 of December 2005, Telecom has reported a total of 279,123 residential broadband connections comprising 215,628 retail connections and 63,495 wholesale connections. This represents 111.6 percent of the aggregate target and 76.5 percent of the wholesale target.
