Bronwyn Howell Presented The Tale of Two TELCO Markets: Comparing Finland and New Zealand at the Helsinki University of Technology on the 4th of May 2007

This presentation compares the issues of process and substance that formed the basis of each of the 2003 Telecommunications Commissioner's review of Local Loop Unbundling and the 2006 'Stocktake Report' of the industry overseen by the Ministry of Economic Development

Presentation by Bronwyn Howell to the 18th Biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society Tokyo Japan 27-30 June 2010.

Bronwyn Howell presents Ultrafast Broadband: Feeding a Need for Speed or Funding a Fibre Arms Race? at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE) on 15 September 2011.

Governments around the world are attempting to 'invest' in infrastructure for the perceived 'future needs' of their nations. Locally New Zealand and Australian governments have spent the past thirty years corporatising and privatising formerly government-owned incumbents and liberalising the...

Bronym Howell presented A Pendulous Progression: New Zealand Telecommunications Regulations 1987-2007 at FICORA (Finnish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority) in Helsinki Finland in May 2007

This paper examines the factors that affect the uptake of broadband in the residential and SME markets. We searched the economics literature on diffusion theory and identified five different models that potentially provide insights into the broadband phenomenon. These models were applied to the...

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific conference held in Taipei Taiwan on 26-28 June 2011. A copy of her presentation is attached.

This paper takes as a starting point for developing deeper understandings the assumption that both regulatory bodies and the sectors in which they operate are institutions. The body of literature about the operation of institutions provides a means of understanding the actors arrangements rules...

We use the telecommunications industry and electricity market in New Zealand and payments systems in Canada and New Zealand to examine the implications of modern network technology for the organisation and governance of deregulated markets. Our analysis identifies natural monopoly components of...