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Telecom
All you can eat sooner than you imagined. That's the way the Government is selling it's decision to give us cheaper, better, faster access to the internet. Officially, the plan means the local loop and sub-loop copper wire lines will be unbundled. In our speak, it means that Telecom will have to share that hard wire, which goes from the exchange to our home and our businesses, to make it an even playing field for all competitors. Until now it's had a monopoly on this. A short time ago the company issued a statement saying it's hard to see how today's announcement will deliver high speed broadband. The ACT party says the regulation is a big step backwards for private enterprise. But it's made one woman very happy today. Slingshot's Annette Presley joins Susan in the studio, along with new media commentator Russell Brown, and the Telecom users' Association's, Ernie Newman.

Name Suppression
Today a Hawkes Bay labourer appeared in court charged with the murder of farmer Jack Nicholas in 2004. We'd like to tell you who he is, but we can't. We'd also like to tell you the identity of the trainee cop facing rape allegations, but once again a judge has granted him interim name suppression so our hands are tied. So are suppression orders over used? National MP Richard Worth thinks so. He's taking the issue to the National caucus. His personal view is that name suppression should not be for the accused but for victims only. Robyn Janes reports.

Maps
National Geographic sparked one of those office debates today. Their study of 500+ young Americans found that most of them didn't know where Iraq was on a map of the Middle East, even though America has been waging a war there for three years. Nearly 90% couldn't find Afghanistan on a map of Asia and only half could find Japan. So is our geography any better? We sent John Sellwood to the mall to test how worldly we are on the geography front.

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