Recently, the view that diffusion of high speed broadband networks is primarily driven by competition or government intervention (OECD, 2007) has been challenged by the emergence of broadband initiatives at the local community level across the globe which seems to point that at a more active...

The political perception of New Zealand's broadband market performance as 'poor' has underpinned many significant changes to the telecommunications policy and regulatory environments since 2001. Most recently, this has been manifested in substantial government subsidies by way of public-private...

The review of the Universal Service Obligation (USO) has recently been debated in the European Union (EU). Under discussion there was the extension of the current universal service definition to include broadband access, for which some theoretical and empirical support exists. In fact the...