Rural customers pay more and get less from telecoms companies supplying them with broadband internet services. That is according to the Commerce Commission's latest Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report . It puts the spotlight on rural services for the first time. It finds the 13% of New Zealanders living in more rural areas outside the national fibre footprint are likely to have significantly lower performing broadband services that are more expensive compared with urban areas. The Telecommunications Commissioner, Tristan Gilbertson, says there is a clear disparity in performance and cost between urban and rural areas.

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