"What this means in effect is that the Bill is sending a strong public policy signal to Telecom and to Vodafone that they will be subject to a greater degree of government regulation."

"Hautaki, Saturn, Econet Wireless ltd, ACN, Kwiknet, netsurf, splurge, surfnet, slingshot, supra networks, actrix, raide internet, clear and Telstraclear, wave, ihug, woosh, xtra, paradise, wireless country….and that’s probably just a start."

"Why does it cost exactly the same in real terms to make a voice call from my office here in Parliament to my Wellington home- as it does to make a call to my home in Ngongotaha -that’s Rotorua for those who don’t know- and yet I am being charged extra, relative to the physical distance (and yet there is no electronic distance involved). The ability to be well-connected now means far more than the quality of your social networks, as perhaps it did in previous generations."

"People living in Pasifika families have the lowest levels of telephone and internet access in the home (88 and 16 percent respectively) followed closely by people living in Maori families (92 and 28 percent)."

"Sole parent families are half as likely as two parent families to have internet access (25% compared to 50 percent)."

"This is particularly urgent for tangata whenua, as our Maori spectrum interests are associated with mobile. Until the mobile issues are sorted, tangata whenua access to the tele-communications industry and the three billion dollar mobile market is restricted."

"They take infra-red photos of each other while I’m still searching for the on-off button."

Infrared photos? With a mobile phone?

"At least I’m one ahead of one of my co-leaders, who calls his new-age phone his raspberry."

"At least I’m one ahead of one of my co-leaders, who calls his new-age phone his raspberry."

Now, this is a good punch...

My children, my nieces and nephews, however, see their cells as the doorway to a world far beyond the whitepages.

Ernie Newman, *shudder*. Sorry but I could not help myself when I saw this guys name 'pop' up Te Ururoa Flavell 'speech', but does he ever have anything positive to say about New Zealand and it's communications industry.

Ernie Newman, and Annette Presley are one of the same to me.

And what was the Maori Party thinking when they composed that!

Cheers

this is not even funny... it's not shocking, it's sad... the education system has failed this guy completely... though he seems to have a good command of the Maori language, which is important given his profession...

mind you, would be surprised at all if any of his colleagues are any better...

as for Ernie... totally agree... he's one of those the crack pipe is half smoked kinda guys...