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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

What do Microsoft, Steve Jobs and 2Degrees all have in common? The answer is John Stanton, a founding partner of 2Degrees major shareholder Trilogy International Partners, and former confidant of Steve Jobs was recently appointed to the Microsoft board.  Thats quite a lot to fit together, so I’ll unpack a few pieces because this is […]

Those aren’t my words, they’re Simon Moutter’s as they officially relaunched Telecom’s Auckland HQ as ‘Spark City’. Like most Kiwi’s over 35 I’ve watched the huge changes that have occurred since the 4th (Lange) Labour Government started the ball rolling by ‘corporatising’ the old Post Office. I was a 20 something commerce student in Dunedin […]