In recent years, the preference for purely private funding and ownership of telecommunications networks has given way to a 'new wisdom' that some form of public funding is now necessary if faster and more capacious Next Generation Networks (NGNs) are to be constructed in a timely fashion. The...

Recently, the view that diffusion of high speed broadband networks is primarily driven by competition or government intervention (OECD, 2007) has been challenged by the emergence of broadband initiatives at the local community level across the globe which seems to point that at a more active...

The political perception of New Zealand's broadband market performance as 'poor' has underpinned many significant changes to the telecommunications policy and regulatory environments since 2001. Most recently, this has been manifested in substantial government subsidies by way of public-private...