I want to return to a theme that emerged in my first week on the job here at TUANZ, and that is how utterly and completely handheld devices have changed the face of telecommunications, and that isn’t going to abate anytime soon. In fact we are just at the beginning of a revolution that will […]
I’m meeting with quite a few people at the moment and the topic of TUANZ’s raison’d’etre often comes up. There is a view that we’ve fought the fights that needed to be fought, but now the market will take care of things and we should just retire gracefully basking in the glow of a job […]
One more post before bedtime, now that I’m back in the temporary VDSL equipped TUANZ cave in #gigatownporirua. I’ve had a flight back from Auckland, (cut off from my feed to the internets) to think about what Ultra Fast Fibre’s declaration of their central North Island patch as the ‘Giganet’ means for Chorus. And what […]
Today’s ‘Giganet’ announcement by UFF promises to revolutionize the entire UFB program for some really exciting reasons: 1. It gives the RSP’s a reason to get serious about creating compelling gigabit products 2. It brings gigabit to a powerhouse of the NZ economy 3. It clearly separates UFB from legacy copper based broadband […]
No I’m not talking about Chorus’s ongoing #gigatown competition, I’m referring to all the towns in the central north island that are lucky enough to have Ultra Fast Fibre as their LFC. Because they will all have access to residential gigabit UFB services from July this year, these services will be available to RSP’s for […]
Last Wednesday night, Graham and Darren from Northpower shared the Northpower Fibre story at a TUANZ After 5 in Auckland. It was a great night and I’m trying to convince them to come and share the story in Wellington soon (keep an eye on the after 5’s section of our website). I’ve been following Northpower […]
Gidday – for those who don’t know me I’m Chris O’Connell and I’ll be the voice of TUANZ for the next 4 months until Craig Young begins the role. (It says I’m Paul because I’m coming to grips with our CMS!) I’ve been around TUANZ for quite a while, I started out judging the TUANZ […]
In response to Sue Kedgely’s opinion piece on why we should be afraid of cellphones, I wrote this piece on the research into cellphones and cancer.
How many people should New Zealand have as a population? Is four million enough or should we aim for more? What are the benefits and what are the risks in trying to increase the size of the population?
Why is uptake so low for the UFB? Should we be worried by the lack of interest or can we help drive customer demand?
