Donal Curtin • Jul 03, 2015 •
Earlier this week the Commerce Commission came out with its latest Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report (pdf), and very interesting reading it was, too (as was last year's, as I commented here). In passing, it's daft that the Commission is oblig... Read More
Donal Curtin • Dec 04, 2014 •
This morning the Commerce Commission released the wholesale price Chorus is allowed to charge to Internet service providers (ISPs), and which therefore is the core component of the retail prices those ISPs charge you for your fixed line broadband.It's made up of two parts, the first being the bit for the cost of the copper line from your place … Read More
Donal Curtin • Oct 01, 2014 •
Earlier this month the World Economic Forum came out with the 2014-15 edition of its Global Competitiveness Report (you can find a link to downloading it here). It got a bit of media attention at the time, mostly on somewhat invidious chauvinist grounds - we moved up a notch, and the Aussies moved down one.Other than that, the … Read More
Donal Curtin • May 27, 2014 •
The Commerce Commission's latest annual monitoring report on the telecommunications markets is a good read (press release here, whole report here). I like the way it's prepared to take an educated guess at the reasons for the trends it sees, and I also like the way it's prepared to take a stab at how things will evolve next. Read More
Donal Curtin • Mar 13, 2014 •
The Commerce Commission, as I blogged a little while ago, has come out with its latest benchmarking report on retail mobile telecommunication services. Produced for it by Teligen, it uses OECD-sourced power parity (PPP) exchange rates to convert overse... Read More
Donal Curtin • Jan 09, 2013 •
I'm a reader, the old-fashioned kind. The house is full of books, there's a stack of unread ones beside the bed and a Unity Books loyalty card in my wallet, I've got accounts with Amazon, and Barnes & Noble, and The Book Depository (NB no postage charges to New Zealand). I've got nine library books currently checked out, and … Read More