Preventing a repetition of the vertically integrated monopoly enjoyed by Telecom’s copper network was always going to be a cardinal requirement of the Government’s $1.5 billion investment in an ultra-fast broadband infrastructure, says The New Zealand Herald in an editorial.

A previous National administration failed lamentably to curb the anti-competitive excesses that sprang from blunders during the privatisation of telecommunications. Consumers suffered as Telecom was allowed to run the sector for more than a decade. Now, at last, lessons seem to have been learned.

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