The government has moved to allow the telecommunications industry to regulate interference issues potentially caused by the deployment of so-called 'next-generation' broadband technologies that rely on copper twisted pair cables.
A number of telcos have endorsed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission moving to regulate non-NBN super-fast broadband networks that target residential end users.
New Zealand company Chorus – the network infrastructure arm of Telecom until a 2011 demerger – has launched a wholesale VDSL-based offering that will be available from 7 June.
Telecom New Zealand (ASX: TEL) has been given the all clear to begin exploring the commercial viability of VDSL in New Zealand following a favourable Commerce Commission ruling on the use of the technology by the company in the provision of its wholesale broadband services.