Remember those far off days when you didn't make a toll call unless it was really important? Remember those far off days when the phone bill arrived and you flinched a little to see how much all those calls you hadn't made had added up?
What a friend we have in competition, we might say.
What a friend we have in the Commerce Commission that helped us along the track to the vigorous competition in the telco market. Yes the actual story’s more complicated than that but bear with me now as I write excitedly: