Appendix 3

New Zealand’s worst policy failure Vodafone is a GSM monopolist

• 30th out of 30 in Mobile (2005 figures, not including new plans on motor confusion plans)
  
• 23rd out of 30 in Fixed Line
• 22nd out of 23 in Broadband
• No number portability. Almost every other OECD country has it
• One of the last countries in OECD to commercially launch 3G/W-CDMA
• The only country in the OECD to have no same-technology competition
• One of the lowest usage of mobile phones in the OECD by minutes of use
• Monopoly rents - TCNZ became the most profitable incumbent in the OECD

Figure 2.4. Telecommunications prices in OECD countries US dollars, August 2004