Since its a friday I thought I’d go off on a slightly different tangent, the recent moves in our extremely nascent, emerging residential Gigabit market got me thinking about the power of evangelism (in the marketing rather than the spiritual sense) as a marketing tool. If you’ve ever found yourself up against rivals or competitors […]
Last week the Green Party released its high tech manufacturing policy at the Wellington Maker Space, they got my attention because this is an area close to my heart (both my sons are aspiring ‘Makers’ and the eldest had his 11th birthday party at the Maker Space) and I know they are onto something championing this […]
You know that feeling you got as a teenager, when the cool kids were having a party that you weren’t invited to ? But you found out about it and you really, really wanted to go ? Well I’m starting to feel that way about 5G, I know the party doesn’t start until 2022 but […]
Every time a new G hits the cellular world, we get driven into yet another frenzy of cyclic upgrades, there’s new spectrum to be auctioned off, towers to upgrade and new devices to buy. So I was intrigued to read that the Chinese Government has already set out its 5G agenda and that China Mobile […]
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 […]
