Using an efficiency-based framework this paper analyses the performance of New Zealand's telecommunications sector under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to 2007). The framework considers the productive allocative...

Recent weeks have seen considerable controversy regarding the government's decision to unbundle the local loop. First Bronwyn Howell's select committee submission criticised the robustness of the analysis underpinning the unbundling decision suggesting that the case for both greater broadband...

Bronwyn Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulation 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority) in June 2007.

Professor Michael Katz presented Sender or Receiver: Who should pay to Exchange an Electronic Messages? at an ISCR seminar in February 2005.

John Small argues that the NZ economy seems likely to benefit from greater broadband participation and unbundling.