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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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 from Geekzone’s Steve Biddle – an introduction to the UFB technology and rollout.
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 […]
“Kiwis break the speed of light” Well, probably not, but do we even need to?
The National Infrastructure Unit of Treasury has compiled a report on New Zealand’s infrastructure needs. The latest update is out now so how is telecommunications doing?
