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 […]
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 […]
One of the fun things about TUANZ is you never know where the next media storm will come from, on Saturday I was in Wellington talking to the real heroes of NZ rural broadband – the regional wireless ISP’s (more about them later) Here’s the latest update from Spark: Cyber criminals based overseas appear to […]
One of the fun things about TUANZ is you never know where the next media storm will come from, on Saturday I was in Wellington talking to the real heroes of NZ rural broadband – the regional wireless ISP’s (more about them later) Here’s the latest update from Spark: Cyber criminals based overseas appear to […]
This morning the Court of Appeal rejected the Chorus appeal of the High Courts earlier ruling upholding the Commerce Commissions process interpreting the 2011 Telecommunications Act. In a nutshell this means that the whole process of moving to ‘cost plus’ based pricing for wholesale, regulated copper broadband services just got 1 step closer. We’re glad […]
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, […]
