New Zealand - Analysis of the Telecoms industry & market - late 2007

Synopsis

New Zealand is on the brink of a new telecoms revolution. Over time, the new environment is going to open up lots of new opportunities for all companies involved. However, it could take time before that actually starts to happen. These include the value added infrastructure opportunities such as data centres, content hosting, network management, etc. But equally a range of innovative customer services can be built on the new wholesale products (double and triple play) and perhaps more importantly open networks will create a great new environment for digital media, e-health, tele-education and smart grid applications, in which there will now be much wider scope for a variety of organisations to participate. However, at the end of 2007 it looked like that the implementation will take time and might prove to be costly for competition, as it all depends on the implementation of the operational separation plans.