5 November 2004-05
Telecommunications Act: Broadband monitoring
The Commerce Commission has completed the first quarter of its monitoring of uptake of residential broadband services
provided or supported by Telecom New Zealand Limited.
The Commission commenced its broadband monitoring following Telecom’s announcement earlier this year that it will have
no fewer than 250,000 residential broadband connections by the end of 2005, of which more than a third (approximately
83,000) will be resold Jetstream products or wholesaled Bitstream services.
For the period July to September 2004, the Commission announces that Telecom achieved 30 percent of its connection
target with a total of 74,449 residential broadband connections. Of this number, 42 were wholesale connections, which
equates to 0.05 percent of the wholesale target.
The broadband uptake figures can be broken down by downstream speed as follows: 60,522 connections with downstream speed
less than 512Kbps; 82 connections with downstream speed of exactly 512Kbps; and 13,803 connections with downstream speed
greater than 512Kbps.
The Commission’s monitoring focuses on residential customers with minimum speeds of 256 Kbps downstream and 128 Kbps
upstream. The monitoring will continue until the end of 2005, and the Commission will publish its results quarterly.
ENDS