A Way Out of the New Zealand Copper Price Quagmire?

I came back from New Zealand last week, just before a political bomb related to regulated copper prices was launched. Here’s the story in a nutshell:

back when structural separation was being implemented, a review of regulated prices was put

New Zealand Government overturns regulator’s decision on copper pricing

A couple of months back, the New Zealand Commerce Commission (the telecom regulator) announced that copper prices would be drastically reduced as the result of a switch in pricing methodologies from retail minus historically to cost based. As a consequence,

Internet Service Guarantees is What Net Neutrality (and consumers) Need

For a number of weeks I've been itching to write a piece on the revival of the so-called Net Neutrality proceedings by the US FCC. I stalled because I wanted to read Chairman Genachowski's remarks on preserving Internet Freedom and

Fully Loaded Cost of Residential Fiber in Singapore

Last week ZDNet Asia released a really interesting article entitled Hidden costs to set up home NBN. The article highlights the various installation costs that are detailed in small letters at the bottom of the offerings, including home installation, activation

Return of the Hog Conundrum

Photo by nutmeg66

This morning, Ars Technica publishes a really interesting article on the cost structure underlying wireline broadband service and its sensitivity to data usage entitled Should broadband data hogs pay more? ISP economics say "no".This article looks

Your phone bill this month is 46 000 EUR

These things occur on a regular basis and I think I've pointed to a few in the past (and I guess James and Matt might have a field day with this one…) Le Monde published the story yesterday of this