A lack of investment in training has left Aotearoa short of telco technicians, and a long queue of people waiting to get high speed fibre installed, a union says.
Chorus, New Zealand's main provider of telecommunications infrastructure, has been forced to apologise for wait times, in some cases blowing out to 10 weeks, when its target time for installations is 15 days.
It's blaming a shortage of about 200 techs, saying many overseas workers returned their home countries when the covid boarder closures lifted. E tū Union organiser Joe Gallagher talks to Lisa Owen.
