Terminate the early termination charges
Early termination charges are fine if you’re recouping the cost of hardware or administration, but when they’re deployed to recover “lost revenue” then we’ve crossed a line.
Entries by tuanzadmin
Why we can’t let two players dominate the 700MHz spectrum auction
TUANZ submission on the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction.
Anything can happen day
In the space of two hours we had three announcements with the potential to change the telco world as we know it.
Unbundling – the elephant in the room
Chorus’s fight to keep the wholesale price of copper high could trigger Telecom to do something I thought it would never do – unbundle Chorus’s network. But is that the right thing to do as we look to the future of fibre optic networks?
Get secret pricing deals off the table – Consumer, InternetNZ, TUANZ
A press release from Consumer, InternetNZ and TUANZ
Managing Expectations
I’m sitting at the Commerce Commission UBA conference so you don’t have to. Currently we’re hearing about why Chorus was so surprised by the draft price point.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Data, spooks, spies, black hat hackers, governments, high value targets and you – just what to make of the Prism, GCSB, Echelon and why it’s all important.
The government and the big corporation
Why do successive governments of New Zealand think that they need to pander to one telco over and above all the others? Can they not see the damage that causes?
Guest Post: Data vampires
John Allen, from Rural Connect, has allowed us to cross-post his excellent piece on broadband product disclosure.
Please let me give you money
It shouldn’t be so hard to give someone money, so why do the content rights holders make us criminals?
