There has been a lot of rhetoric lately about broadband in New Zealand, from the Prime Ministers statements in the opening speech to Parliament, through to the Campbell Live edition dedicated to the state of NZ broadband. It’s encouraging that the poor state of broadband in NZ has become a high profile issue.

It’s also encouraging to see that ISPs such as iHug actually have a reasonable strategy to present to the Government about how things should work.

I think its becoming clear that Telecom’s arrogance has met its end and there are some fairly serious changes on the horizon. I’m hearing a lot of people saying that it’s no longer a question fo whether the Government will proceed with LLU, but whether they will force a structural split of Telecom in addition to LLU.

Personally, I’m not going to be making any predictions in public yet, the Government has talked tough and not followed through before, but the signs are definitely looking positive for hearing some good news later in the year.