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Slow broadband

This 2006 cartoon by Garrick Tremain compares New Zealand’s broadband performance with the rest of the world. New Zealand’s broadband has been relatively slow and costly by international standards. Improving broadband performance is crucial to making technical and creative industries competitive overseas.

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Garrick Tremain

Reference: Otago Daily Times, 16 March 2006

by Garrick Tremain

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Mark Derby, Knowledge-based industries – Information technology, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/21776/slow-broadband (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Mark Derby, published 1 March 2010.