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New Zealand often seems like a toy country with one of everything. There's the One Bank, the One Telecom, the One Airline.

Not ... exactly. But effectively, yes.

A combination of a tiny population (5.1 millions) and a long way from nowhere (roughly 3,200 km / 2,000 mi from Sydney).

Australia and Canada already have issues from their own small scale (and vast land areas). NZ takes it up a notch.



Mobile data in NZ is pretty good nowadays, for NZD $60/mo we had unlimited/unthrottled 4G broadband good enough to play FPS games on. In Canada the best we can get is CAD $169/mo for average to middling speeds with pings over 180.


At least of late NZ seem to have pretty good governance. That may help ameliorate the more agregious harms.


Interesting you'd say that in a thread about ISPs, considering we have regulation-enforced separation between the owners of our government-funded nation-wide FTTH network and the actual service providers. This means I have over a dozen ISPs to choose from, and they all over gigabit fibre and compete on price, customer service, and things like IPv6 or CG-NAT.


On the other hand it made it quite an enviable place for much of a global pandemic.




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