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:
Matt Powell is the editor for the UK broadband comparison site
Broadband Genie, where he
blogs on the latest broadband and mobile broadband topics.
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.
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
