Scale of economy seems alway obstacle for affordable telecommunication service.
Japan (population 130 million) is the 3rd biggest economy in the world, after US and China.
Japan and NZ (population of 4.5 million) has definitely large difference of scale of economy.
Regarding Telecom, Japanese NTT revenue is 20 times of NZTelecom. as well as Japanese population is 32 times of NZ.
But CEO's salary is
NTT (Japan):
Revenue in 2012 - 100 billion USD
CEO annual Salary - 0.5 million USD
NZTelecom:
Revenue in 2011 - 5 billion USD
CEO annual Salary - 4 million USD
