The Greens rev up the ICT sector
The Green Party has posted a discussion document on the future of ICT in New Zealand’s economy and it could have been written by us here at TUANZ. So what’s in it and where does it go from here?
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The Prime Minister versus the Commerce Commission
The Prime Minister has said twice now that he won’t rule out overriding the Commerce Commission’s findings on the price of wholesale broadband. Can he actually do that?
A bouquet for Telecom
Telecom has announced new roaming rates for travellers and they deliver a good real-world solution to an age-old problem – when all you want to do is carry on using your phone as you have in the past, what’s the best way forward?
Initial Pricing Principle
The Commerce Commission is coming under immense pressure regarding its draft determination of Chorus’s wholesale price. Chorus says hundreds of millions of dollars will disappear from its business and the fibre rollout will be in jeopardy. The Prime Minister himself has a view on it all – but what is the situation and why has the Commission made the call it’s made?
Commerce Commission ruling on copper
The Commerce Commission has released one decision on the cost of unbundled lines and one recommendation on wholesale pricing. Given we’re all going to be using copper lines for our broadband for the foreseeable future, what does this mean for the industry as a whole?
Your [0800] call is [not] important to us
0800 numbers allow customers to call you without cost – so why is it that mobile phone customers are often shunned when it comes to 0800 numbers?
Shop till you drop
The inquiry into price gouging by international corporations heats up in Australia as claims of prices being inflated by half abound. Meanwhile the corporates seem willing only to pay lip service ad not taxes to local authorities.
Guest Post: Data havens and the constitution
Guy Burgess is “a New Zealand lawyer, software developer, consultant, CEO of LawFlow, and feijoa farmer” as well as a chatty fellow on Twitter. He’s written about our data haven concept from the all-important legal perspective. TUANZ CEO Paul Brislen has written a thought-provoking article on the prospects of turning New Zealand into a data haven. There’s a […]
Guest Post: UFB for Dummies
Guest post from Geekzone’s Steve Biddle – an introduction to the UFB technology and rollout.
GUEST POST: More on PBX security
Those of you with an attention span will remember we talked about PBX security a little while ago and Ben and I had quite a good discussion both in the comments and on Twitter about how important it all is.Ben blogged on it and kindly allowed me to cross-post it here. Check out more from […]
