21st December 2018 Today we have filed with the Commerce Commission our submission on their proposed approach to implementing the new regulatory framework for Fibre services. In our submission we highlighted three issues: Reliance on the Commission and s162 – with our limited resources we trust in the independance and the expertise of the Commission to […]
5th December 2018 At the final TUANZ Board meeting of 2018, Liz Gosling was unanimously re-elected to continue in the role of Chair. Liz is the Chief Information Officer at Auckland University of Technology where she leads a team of 170 people and is responsible for information technology provision for AUT’s staff and students. […]
31st August 2018 Following on from the earlier scope paper covering a review of the mobile market, TUANZ welcomes the broad range of questions raised in the Commerce Commissions Issues Paper released today. “We are really pleased to see the holistic approach being taken by the Commission in this study. We have been calling for […]
12th June 2018 With National Fieldays only a day away, TUANZ has today reiterated the importance of a maintained focus on continued improvement to connectivity in rural New Zealand. “While last week’s news that the Government has successfully brought forward the completion date of the latest round of the rural broadband initiative is welcome, we […]
27th March 2018 TUANZ welcomes the broader scope of the Commerce Commissions mobile market review. TUANZ welcomes today’s release of the scope for the review of the mobile market that the Commerce Commission will undertake this year. “We have been consistent over the last few years in calling for a fully independent study of the […]
8th February 2018 Christchurch fibre broadband provider, Enable, is the inaugural foundation sponsor of the Christchurch chapter of FLINT, or Future Leaders in Technology, a national leadership programme run by TUANZ (Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand) that provides networking development opportunities for the next generation of technology industry leaders. After successful FLINT chapters in […]
2nd February 2018 Today we have filed with Parliament our select committee submission on the current bill before the house to amend the Telco Act. Our focus is in ensuring the Act can respond quickly to changes for the benefit of users. At the recent board meeting, the discussion was very much around how any changes […]
8th December 2017 At this week’s TUANZ Board meeting, Liz Gosling was unanimously elected to take up the role of Chair. Immediate past Chair, Pat O’Connell had earlier indicated that it was time to hand the responsibility on to the next person. Liz is the tenth chair since incorporation in 1986, and the second woman […]
8th August 2017 TUANZ welcomes today’s long awaited introduction of the Telecommunications Amendment Bill which is the outcome of the review of the current regulatory framework. “Earlier this year we stated our support of many of the proposed changes when outlined in an options paper, and it’s pleasing to see these make it to […]
31st July 2017 TUANZ welcomes the recent letter sent from the Minister for Communications to the Telecommunications Commissioner in which he expresses his interest in the Commission undertaking a review of the mobile telecommunications market. “We have previously stated in our Telco Act Review submissions our desire to see an independant review of the mobile […]
