Download Weekly: ComCom ponders rural copper regulation

Deregulation on cards as copper network investigation opens

Deregulation could be on the cards as the Commerce Commission investigation into the copper phone network gets underway.

With close to 90 per cent of New Zealanders now covered by the Ultrafast Fibre Broadband network and many of the remainder served by wireless ISPs or low-Earth orbit satellites, the copper phone network is fast becoming an anachronism.

Chorus, which continues to own and operate the copper network,...