It will do nothing for the vast number of business and residential users who are being disadvantaged by speeds that fall well short of the international norm.

There'll be a lot of short-term specials and apparent flurries of activity that will, on the surface, appear to bring prices down, but at the end of the year there will not have been a lot of progress.

It will remove a huge blockage to the development of a modern day telecommunications infrastructure in this country.

Here is another granny step along the road to progress. Essentially, it's the same old stuff coming through.

It shows up a fundamental shortcoming in the act. A different mechanism needs to be introduced so users are not left stranded in this way, which is what has happened here.

Local line rental is far higher here than in most jurisdictions.