No sooner had I stopped dreaming about having a Primowireless UFB connected, smart ‘gigahome’ in Taranaki when this arrived in my inbox: “Media Release23 September 2014 Vodafone powers a new era of connected car innovation Vodafone is driving a new suite of vehicle innovation in New Zealand, with the launch of BMW’s interactive mobile technology, […]
If you live in a UFB area in Taranaki, your world has just got a lot faster, Primowireless have now launched their new residential UFB services and a new look website. The big news is that they have released the first residential gigabit UFB service in New Zealand (that I know of) and it […]
As we get ready to face the polling booth tomorrow, I’ve been reflecting on the campaign and how it impacts on the ICT sector in New Zealand. I was hoping that we would get some serious discussion going on how ICT is going to shape our countries future. The Government is now 6 years into […]
Firstly the five ‘gigatown’ finalists have been selected and sadly #gigatownporirua came in sixth. The other related news is that Orcon have announced that they will be the RSP for the winning gigatown. So its congratulations to Gisbourne, Nelson, Timaru, Wanaka and Dunedin who get to go to Chattanooga and then its on the finals. […]
Federated Farmers and TUANZ believe it is essential the next Government delivers better connectivity to rural New Zealand, and is keen to work with them to make that happen. “We are encouraged by the National Party’s further commitment of $150million, if they’re re-elected, and hope to see a similar commitment from our next Government announced […]
For as long as I’ve been involved with the internet, it’s been a truism that speeds are always increasing. This has created the current eco-system where we are now locked into a seemingly perpetual upgrade cycle of increasing processor speeds, increased storage capacity and finally increased bandwidth all wrapped up in a shiny device on […]
In business sticking to your knitting is usually regarded as a virtue, that is unless your name is Apple in which case you’re just about obliged to go and wreck beautifully designed carnage in other peoples piles of yarn. I was reminded of this adage this week as I watched the Apple keynote for the […]
Some quick observations on the weeks tech news here and abroad. Chorus still singing out of tune. This weeks appeal court ruling, yet again signals the need for a strategic reset at our largest telco infrastructure provider. Not going to hold my breath waiting though. Spark splutters. The Spark internet outage showed how dependent we’ve […]
Now that the bits are getting themselves flowing in the right direction at Spark, its probably a good time to make some observations. The first one is that this is the second major Spark/Telecom ‘outage’ media storm that I have covered from the TUANZ perspective (the first was the XT meltdown) and there have been […]
I’m not sure too many people are going to vote this year solely based on ICT policies, but if you are involved in the sector its worth being across what’s on offer and it might affect you or your business. It’s been such a weird campaign so far as policy debate is a distant second […]
