Telecom has been clearly informed that the target of 250,000 residential broadband connections monitored by the Commission require that more than a third of those connections will be resold Jetstream products or wholesaled bitstream services, says Telecommunications Commissioner Douglas Webb.

Mr Webb said the Commerce Commission wrote to Telecom in February in response to a query concerning the wholesale broadband targets.

In that letter, the Commission confirmed that:

"The monitoring reports will assess outcomes against the following targets:

  • Not less than 250,000 Telecom residential broadband customers by the end of 2005,
  • Of which more than a third will be represented by resold Jetstream products or wholesaled bitstream services."