Guest Post: Yes (please) Minister
Guest Post – Paddy Buckley runs Quickflix New Zealand. Here he talks about the video on demand market and why telecommunications and broadcasting are two sides of the same coin.
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Guest Post: Fear of failure and the education system
Tim is a teacher at
Seatoun School in Wellington. He is interested in the challenges of leading
systemic changes in schools. As a leader of IT at his school, he is always
considering how IT enables and enhances the “how we do what we do” in
education.
Guest post – UK broadband goes mobile
Guest Post:
Matt Powell is the editor for the UK broadband comparison site
Broadband Genie, where he
blogs on the latest broadband and mobile broadband topics.
The GCSB hearing
News coverage of yesterday’s GCSB hearing focused on Kim Dotcom’s presentation, but for my money the real kicker came with Thomas Beagle’s presentation on behalf of the Tech Liberty organisation.
Overbuilding networks is not on
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?
Wanganui – city of the future
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.
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.
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?
