Save Our Landlines NZ has launched a petition on the copper landline phone issue.
The petition asks New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters to withdraw the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Bill which threatens New Zealanders’ access to the copper phone line network.The petition requests that the bill be re-drafted it so that it protects the copper phone line system and ensures that it remains accessible at an affordable price.
The petition, hosted by Change.org may be accessed at the link below:
Save Our Landlines NZ asks supporters to please share the link and encourage friends and family to sign the petition.
Thank you.
Ed note: We have had feedback that the petition would not work properly for someone who was using Chrome as their browser. It works fine when using Firefox.
Please join us
Your voice in defence of New Zealand’s copper landline network and your taking the time to help educate others about the importance of this important national infrastructure would be most appreciated.
If you would like to write to your MP and ask him or her not to vote for the bill that will destroy much as NZ’s copper landline system, there a template letter that you can adapt and information to help you do this here: https://saveourlandlines.nz/news/a-vote-for-the-telecommunications-new-regulatory-framework-amendment-bill-is-a-vote-for-the-destruction-of-much-of-nzs-copper-landline-phone-system/
If you would like to volunteer to help with this campaign, please contact us via the Contact Form. Thank you.
We also have a Facebook page that you can like and/or follow at this link: https://www.facebook.com/Save-Our-Landlines-NZ-1626155717464225/
All of the submissions on the bill may be read at the following link: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/bills-and-laws/bills-proposed-laws/document/BILL_74818/tab/submissionsandadvice
Mounting research is indicating cell phones carry significant risks,especially if having prolonged usage so for the health and safety of NZers we need to retain the use of landlines .Many elderly e.g. those with dementia cannot use them so it cuts them off from communication with family members.my mother fits this and living overseas would not be able to talk to her regularly
We are in a area not good for cell phone use. We need the land line for urgent calls to the ambulance service.This land line phone lets me direct the ambulance driver to our home,and talk while trying to save his life.
This removal of copper based land lines is an absolute stupidity.
No consideration for older generation, and the need for landline in states of emergency. –
In rural N.Z. there are many times the electricity is down, so no internet or desk phone. Our copper landline is the only way to connect with the outside world in those circomstances.
It needs to stay in place, as an emergancy telephone in every house!!!!! It does not run out of batteries, not low on credits or any of the other problems one can have with a mobile phone. Thanks
Keep landlines
The history of using asbestos or DDT, initially advertised as the best inventions to our use, set a precedent for other untested products and technologies to be sold without thorough scientific research and testing.
People’s health should be priority to business profits.
We are against the removal of our landline and being dependent on the internet connection. Our current phone works perfectly even without electricity from our house. In the recent earthquakes of Christchurch this was important for us.
As a health practitioner, both the research evidence and my experiences with clients clearly demonstrate the negative impact Smart technology EMF radiation pollution can and is increasingly having on human health. Save our landlines.
Yeah, I want to keep my landline. Is that too much to ask? Some people are not suited to new technology like me, and I like it the way it is thanks. I don’t understand new technology very well and that is why I like to keep my land line going. Too many threats we as pensioners face with hijacking and hacking and I don’t want my mobile as I don’t trust other’s integrity any longer when I don’t know them. People steal with the use of mobile phones and that is why I want my landline as well.
Nico