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Linda Sanders: UFB? Not so fast

Cutting the price of copper connections makes Ultra Fast Broadband a hard sell.

By Linda Sanders In Money

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28th November, 2013
What Chorus should charge for its copper broadband services is a thorny question for the Government to resolve. Other near monopolies, such as the post and power, face similar issues. It’s part of a bigger dilemma. With unrelenting new technologies, consumers face ever-expanding choices between the old and new. Take postal services. NZ Post is struggling to make parts of its traditional delivery services pay. Yet despite 95% of our communications now occurring through the internet, we still expect to be able to send or receive a letter the old-fashioned way when we choose. Newspaper ...

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