Broadband bargain-hunting forces Spark to change tack

Broadband bargain-hunting forces Spark to change tack
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Feb. 16 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealanders holding out for the cheapest broadband they can find is forcing Spark New Zealand to compete more aggressively on price.  Government data show prices for telecommunications services have dropped 15 percent over the past five years. In that time, there has been a major overhaul of the sector with a third mobile phone operator gaining traction, network operator Chorus carved out of Telecom, and the roll-out of a government-sponsored fibre network.  Spark, the services business that d...