Commission releases telco market developments snapshot for 2017
The Commerce Commission has released a snapshot paper about telecommunications market developments in 2017.
The paper provides a summary of key market developments in 2017, including:
- consumers being offered increasingly diverse bundles of telco services including electricity or streaming video services, and large or unlimited data bundles for mobile phones
- an increasing variety of broadband options leading to growth in both fixed-wireless and fibre connections
- the rise of mainstream viewing of TV content over the internet.
In previous years our Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Reportopen_in_new included a snapshot of market developments. However, our 11th Annual Monitoring Report, released in December 2017, was condensed to focus on key trends, allowing it to be released 5 months earlier than in previous years.
We are now developing additional topic papers on specific areas of interest, market developments, and trends. A second topic paper on broadband performance monitoring will be released later this year.
The topic paper can be found hereopen_in_new.
Background
Under the Telecommunications Act, the Commission is required to monitor competition, development, and performance of telecommunications markets and to make information about these matters available.