Chorus is facing a $400m cost blowout as it deploys the UFB. So why is fibre being deployed where existing fibre already operates? Why are we overbuilding in places where it would make more economic sense to lease space off an existing provider? Are we doing this the hard way?
Wanagnui’s TechEx expo was a chance to catch up on rural broadband issues, hear about new technology like cognitive radio and to find out just why the RBI is only the starting point, not the end game for rural users.
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.
TUANZ submission on the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction.
In the space of two hours we had three announcements with the potential to change the telco world as we know it.
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?
A press release from Consumer, InternetNZ and TUANZ
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.
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.
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?
