On 2/01/2009, at 8:23 AM, Bernard Frankpitt wrote:
I was surprised to find the the ISP situation has changed drastically in the last three years. There are now essentially 4 ISPs in New Zealand: Telecom, Telstra, Vodaphone and Slingshot:
Orcon (a large ISP that is now indirectly government-owned) and Xnet/ WorldXchange (a budget ISP) are pretty big in terms of subscriber numbers too. They sit in the chain at the same level that Vodafone and Slingshot/Callplus do, in that they sell DSL over Telecom's DSLAMs predominantly, but have either started deploying their own DSLAMs in some exchanges or plan to do so.
There's also ten or so smaller ISPs around the place, some of which are predominantly regional. Basically all of them, with the exception of some wireless ISPs (of which Woosh is the most well known, but probably not for the right reasons), sell DSL services.
There's also a few business ISPs around, and many of the above residential ISPs also have business services.
-jasper
