There’s been a wee drama unfolding off screen over the last few days as our TV operators have lined up behind SKY TV to refuse to run a TVC from Slingshot that made a reference to their ‘global mode’ service that lets customers get around IP address based geoblocking so that they can access off […]
As we count down the last few days of Telecom in its current form, they have just come out with a request that TUANZ can easily get 100% behind – consistent gigabit downloads and pricing from all NZ’s local fibre companies. It’s time for a ‘Giganation’ says Telecom as UFB coverage hits 100% Telecom, soon […]
About one thing anyway, and that is that we need fibre to 98% of New Zealand. 5.2. Universal access Fibre for all: The Internet Party believes that fibre broadband is essential infrastructure if New Zealand is to become a global leader in the digital age. The goal is fibre to the premises of the 97.8 […]
MBIE (the Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment) have just announced a review of the Radio Communications Act 1989. Before you yawn and click off, take a moment to think about all the radios that you use every day without even thinking about it: Wifi, bluetooth, your mobile, your car radio, your baby monitor and […]
Everybody’s favourite mayor is thinking big, and he’s picked on 3 of my favourite topics, 5G, broadband as infrastructure and publishing every homes broadband speeds. As London becomes the bright shining center of the European tech scene, it’s only natural that the city would like to maintain its place at the top of the pile. […]
Do you think we’ll reach a tipping point where ‘broadband’ stops being a technology issue and becomes a real estate issue instead? This is a thought that has struck me a few times in the last 15 years or so. The reason is that good fixed line broadband is basically binary, you either have it […]
I’ve just got back from a press conference at parliament where David Cunliffe & Clare Curran launched the second part of their ICT policy. The first bit was done a couple of weeks ago at Nethui, my thoughts are here. As an outsider it was fascinating to watch the ‘gallery’ in action and quite a […]
Readers of this blog will remember the so called ‘Copper Tax’ campaign from the end of last year. Things may have seemed a little quiet on that front lately, but behind the scenes there’s quite a bit going on. The latest skirmish to surface burst onto the scene with a press release from the Commerce […]
Sometimes reality can bite, and that looks to be the case with the latest TrueNet report on rural broadband, which has actually seen real world performance of rural broadband connections decline. This is surprising because a review of the RBI spin machine leads you to believe that its all sorted, the problem is that it […]
Be afraid, be very afraid… An active, non-pre paid telephone number, whether real or virtual, fixed or mobile is essentially a form of unlimited, unsecured credit. There really are bad guys out there probing for unsecured lines and this can bizarrely turn our telco’s into unwitting mafia debt collectors. In the last few weeks, I’ve […]
