National Broadband Networks: Markets, Mates and Missing Analysis
CIS Lecture
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Bronwyn Howell
Running time: 59 mins
The efforts of the past thirty years to liberalise the telecommunications industry in Australia and NZ seem to be unravelling, as government funded National Broadband Networks are rolled out.
What motivates these government investments that appear to be turning the industry ownership clock back 30 years? What are they likely to achieve? And why can’t the market deliver such outcomes? Indeed, what are the desirable outcomes?To bring some rationality into this debate is Bronwyn Howell, an internationally noted authority on broadband and General Manager of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation at Victoria University, Wellington. CIS NZ Policy Analyst Luke Malpass will chair this event.
