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> the NZ govt. forcibly separated our telecom monopoly provider into a retail and a wholesale company, then they put a whole bunch of money up for competitive t
by fyfy18 9y ago
> the NZ govt. forcibly separated our telecom monopoly provider into a retail and a wholesale company, then they put a whole bunch of money up for competitive tender to build a national fibre network
Isn’t that effectively what happened with BT and Openreach? In a large town or city you are usually ok, but any further out you have a lack of choice and pretty poor (for 2018) speeds.
- te_chris 9y agoNope, they copped out and kept the two together but with separate boards.
- davidgerard 9y agoIn practice they operate separately, and IME BT's ISP side takes this seriously. Really, OpenReach is the old Postmaster General's department, after a privatisation and a couple of renames. Except they now take three weeks instead of six months. The engineers are great, too - people who see their job as keeping things working.