Prime Minister John Key is refusing to rule out dramatic intervention such as injecting taxpayer cash into network company Chorus.

Internet companies are promising to pass on a big chunk of a price cut announced yesterday - one even says its customers could save $7.50 a month on their bills.

To accept the idea of being under constant observation is to accept imprisonment - ironically by the Land of the Free, writes Chris Barton.

In part 2, telecommunications writer Hamish Fletcher asks whether Chorus is set to get a $450m windfall or is this just a fair return?

Chorus would get "windfall gains" and have an incentive to "go slow" building the ultra-fast broadband network if the Govt intervenes in the copper internet market, says Vector.

What's his game? Is the PM misinformed? Or deliberately spreading misinformation? Chris Barton looks at the issues on the copper tax debate.

Telecom, the country's biggest internet and phone company, says it supports intervention on copper prices.

Consumer NZ boss Sue Chetwin, who is leading a group fighting for lower internet prices.

Government intervention in the copper broadband market is a quick fix to rushed policy introduced in 2011, says former Telecommunications Commissioner Ross Patterson.

Vodafone has hit out at "ill-conceived" intervention in the copper broadband market proposed by the Government.

Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce's "arm twisting" of would-be participants in a campaign fighting for lower internet prices is linked to the Government's "shabby deal" over ultra-fast broadband with network company Chorus, said Mr Cunliffe.

Transfield Services, the Australian company hired to roll the ultra-fast broadband network across much of New Zealand, says it is taking action to pay its New Zealand subcontractors.

Dozens of subcontractors working on the Government's ultra-fast broadband network have not been paid for weeks of work on the project.

Hundreds of workers employed in the rollout of ultra-fast broadband have reportedly downed their tools after not being paid.

There's a Machiavellian hand at work in Amy Adams plans to raise the cost of broadband for New Zealand consumers, writes Chris Barton.

Shopping via mobile devices is on the rise in New Zealand, according to new research.

Ultra-fast broadband is spreading, but where are the customers? Anthony Doesburg reports.