NZ is a great success story. Compared to Australia who privatised Telecom copper (now called Telstra), who let the copper rot and were also forced to allow acce

NZ is a great success story. Compared to Australia who privatised Telecom copper (now called Telstra), who let the copper rot and were also forced to allow access which caused 3rd party retailers and consumers large problems with poor access. Then the government announced a full fibre to the home network which started being built. Just before the large upwards curve in rollout, the government changed, and bought the rotting copper infrastructure back off Telstra (plus some cable) at astronomical prices. So now we have slow, expensive internet and the taxpayer has spent more than it would have cost to rollout the fibre, and it’s years later.