Prime Minister slates New Zealand broadband

14.02.2006

The Greens, who are supporting the government but remain outside it, issued a statement earlier which calls for Telecom's broadband monopoly to be broken. IT spokesman Nandor Tanczos accuses Telecom of manufacturing congestion on the "information highway" and welcomes indications by Prime Minister Clark that the government will address the problem.

Taking a hard line on regulating Telecom, Tanczos says that nothing short of full local loop unbundling will fall short for New Zealand.