After Fives after match report
Enable is building the UFB network in Christchurch and some surrounding areas, so how’s it doing in what surely be a unique situation? The answer is, extremely well.
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Election wish list for a digital economy
There’s an election coming – TUANZ lists ten ICT policies the incoming government should get behind.
The political agenda
New Labour leader David Cunliffe has taken on the ICT portfolio for himself. What does this mean for the industry as we go into the next election cycle?
It’s the connection, stupid
What will drive demand for the UFB? Making copper more expensive just isn’t the answer, but we have a few suggestions as to what is.
Axe the tax
The government wants to tax all broadband customers $600m and give the money to Chorus shareholders. We don’t think that’s right.
Transfield
The Transfield issue should be of major concern to both the government and Crown Fibre Holdings in particular.
Gigatown
Chorus is rolling out a project to give one town in New Zealand gigabit speeds. But why only one town? Why aren’t we giving that kind of capacity to all New Zealand. It doesn’t cost any more to deliver so why not?
All together now
If the Telecommunications Act review discussion document has done anything it’s unite the industry (users, retailers and network operators) behind one common cause – making sure the Chorus Tax doesn’t get implemented.
Having your cake and eating it too (and creating a monopoly along the way)
The minister says customers should be encouraged to move to the fibre network as soon as possible, but only in Chorus’s fibre areas. In the LFCs’ areas she says Chorus can cheerfully pocket price to compete with them. Which is, it Minister? Fibre above all else or Chorus above all else?
Collateral Damage
The GCSB bill is about to pass with a majority of one and a groundswell of opposition. But where did this train of events begin? You’ll be surprised to learn it started in the early 1990s and is the end round in a very long game indeed.
