There are many geographic and demographic similarities between Finland and New Zealand but their telecommunications markets show marked differences. Finland has seen greater broadband penetration and a higher degree of voice traffic substitution from fixed to mobile connections while New Zealand...

This report suggests that the telecommunications market in New Zealand is surprisingly mature. We infer that the potential for growth is limited. There has been negligible growth in any of the number of fixed lines either business or residential since 2000. The number of residential lines is...

Bronwyn Howell recently attended the International Telecommunications Society conference in Perth. Attached are copies of her presentations to the conference including slides of her involvement in a Policy Roundtable.

Much attention in recent months has been focused upon both the existence and the extent of a "digital divide" between urban New Zealanders and their rural counterparts. A commonly held perception is that rural New Zealanders hobbled by the relative disadvantages of an inadequate...

On July 1 2010 the Minister of Communications Steven Joyce announced fundamental changes to the structure and regulation of the New Zealand Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband Initiative. The changes were deemed necessary in order to achieve uptake targets sufficient to underpin the business case...

PowerPoint slides presented by Bronwyn Howell at The Journalists Training Organisation Courses hosted by Victoria University Continuing Education and Executive Development are available for download here.

Comments to the Federal communications Commission Washington DC on Broadband Study conducted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. NPB Public Notice #13; GN Docket Numbers 09-47; 09-51; 09-137.Prepared by Bronwyn Howell November 13 2009.

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

Bronwyn Howell presented Lessons from NZ for England's Proposed NHS Foundation Trust and Vice-Versa at the New Zealand Health Economics Meeting in November 2004.

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.