Vox Pop
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?
Entries by tuanzadmin
The S-Curve
Why is uptake so low for the UFB? Should we be worried by the lack of interest or can we help drive customer demand?
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.
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 […]
