Here is another granny step along the road to progress. Essentially, it's the same old stuff coming through. |
It shows up a fundamental shortcoming in the act. A different mechanism needs to be introduced so users are not left stranded in this way, which is what has happened here. |
It will do nothing for the vast number of business and residential users who are being disadvantaged by speeds that fall well short of the international norm. |
It will remove a huge blockage to the development of a modern day telecommunications infrastructure in this country. |
Local line rental is far higher here than in most jurisdictions. |
There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress. |