Guest Post: Another loss for Fortress Google
Michael Wigley is one of New Zealand’s top lawyers with an interest in the telco space (in its broadest sense) and here he posts on the Google EU privacy wrangle, from the other side of the coin.
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We have always been at war with Eastasia
The EU has told Google it must help some customers remove access to their long-irrelevant data stored online. This is a very bad idea.
Fishhooks
The Commerce Commission’s annual telco monitoring report is out. Amidst the good news one big question is raised – why do on account mobile customers pay so much for their service?
TUANZ announces new CEO
TUANZ announces the new CEO, taking over from October.
Chorus ups the ante on fibre speeds
Chorus has introduced a raft of new fibre products. They’re commercial, so fall outside the Crown Fibre mandated offerings, but they’re fast. Very fast indeed.
Still not content with content
Are those people who download content really pirates or are they your biggest customers eager for your product?
Product disclosure
Telecom’s new unlimited plans have hit the market and it joins Orcon and Slingshot (among others) entering this end of the market. But unlimited isn’t always unlimited, so does Telecom’s offer summary tell it like it is?
Spectrum fight goes on and on
The Commerce Commission has again delayed giving clearance to Telecom to buy the last block of management rights for 700MHz spectrum. To recap: the government auction saw three bidders (Telecom, Vodafone and 2Degrees) able to buy a maximum of three lots of spectrum each. Telecom and Vodafone did just that, but 2Degrees only bought […]
The high cost of rural broadband
Demand for broadband in rural Australia has been woefully underestimated, according to the Aussie government. What about over here – how does New Zealand’s response to the rural broadband problem stack up?
IPP vs FPP: What the High Court has to say about it all
The Telco Act includes two processes for working out how much we should pay for broadband. Why is that and what does today’s High Court ruling mean for our broadband pricing
