The National party has today announced that the UFB program will be extended to cover 80% of NZ towns using additional funds from the ‘Future Investment Fund’ The process has yet to be defined but promises to bring UFB to more towns: “Te Puke, Motueka, Morrinsville, Kerikeri, Huntly, Thames, Matamata, Ōtaki, Kawerau, Waitara, Kaitaia, Dannevirke, […]
I spend quite a bit of time watching various technology stories emerge and I’ve learnt that you need to develop a couple of skills if you are going to maintain both your focus and sanity. It is very easy to believe everything that you read and soon you come to realise that: a. A […]
In the last 24 hours 2 stories have broken that cause me to pause and look a bit closer at 2Degrees, from a TUANZ perspective we have encouraged the competitive impact of having a 3rd mobile network and we have walked much of the journey with 2Degrees. So here are the stories, the first is […]
Well I’ve had a night to sleep on yesterday’s announcement and I’m still pretty excited, its a clever piece of policy work, by extending the TDL (Telecommunications Development Levy – successor to the much derided TSO) the Government has given itself an extra $150 Million to play with that is fiscally neutral (I think they’ll […]
This afternoon the Government announced additional funding for rural broadband and connectivity, the detail is here: https://www.national.org.nz/news/news/media-releases/detail/2014/08/26/$150-million-boost-for-rural-broadband-initiative National’s Communications and Information Technology spokeswoman, Amy Adams, today announced a re-elected National-led Government will establish a new $150 million fund to extend the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI). Ms Adams made the announcement in Greymouth with Prime Minister […]
A few different experiences lately have got me thinking about digital leadership and just whose job should it be? A recent discussion on twitter also canvased the issue as well, I think the whole ‘gigatown’ campaign highlights the difficulties around trying to stimulate UFB uptake and awareness when Chorus itself comes from the culture that […]
Yesterday when I was telling the story of Primowireless and their uniquely Taranaki product development process I was reminded about the importance of a strong play ethic. History is littered with advances that occurred as a result of just playing around with things, sadly our current ‘safety’ oriented ‘PC’ culture seems to be very afraid […]
My trip to Taranaki last week gave me a chance to put faces to the gigabit speed test results I’ve been posting. I took the time to visit Primowireless and see what these guys are up to, what I found is a seven year old business that is thriving by filling the niches that others […]
Apologies for the light blogging over the last few days, I’ve been on the road with 2 funerals and an Economic Development roadtrip to Palmerston North. Its made me reflect on the value of the roadtrip, far from being a burden I think they are really valuable opportunities to get re-grounded in whats really going […]
Sometimes its the little things that show you how much things have changed. Yesterday I went to a funeral in New Plymouth, and it was being streamed live over the internet to family that couldn’t be there in person. In fact there was a subtle digital capability to the entire event, the nicely designed and […]
