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“Kiwis break the speed of light” Well, probably not, but do we even need to?
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Critical infrastructure
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?
Strawman: How to save the New Zealand economy
Kim Dotcom has raised an interesting idea – running a planet-wide data service from New Zealand. How scaleable is that and what are the downsides? This post is a TUANZ strawman so feel free to poke holes in it and knock it down, if you can.
Kim Dot Com or Kim Dot Come on?
Our own eccentric dotcom millionaire wants to reignite the Pacific Fibre project and build New Zealand a submarine cable. So what’s stopping us getting behind the project? What’s to stop a publicly funded project raising enough capital to get Pacific Fibre across the line?
Guest post: Privacy and the Law
Part two of Hayden Glass’s look at privacy laws in the time of the internet.
The site’s a bit broken today
404, this link is lunked. Fear not, good people, the internet is still there.
It’s the long weekend – do you know what your PABX is up to?
PABX hacking is an old-school way to create havoc and mayhem, and there’s no sign of it going away just yet. Reports are coming in of businesses being stung to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. What can you do to make sure your business doesn’t go bust because of a phone bill?
The Sum of All Our Fears – Privacy in the digital age
Guest post from Hayden Glass – Privacy is one of the big issues of the digital age. What privacy do we have, or can we have, in an era where all data is recorded for all time and potentially stored under another country’s legal system?
The Big Hairy Audacious Goal
Vodafone has been cleared to buy TelstraClear. Is this the culmination of Russell Stanner’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal, to be the number one telco in New Zealand?
Whither VDSL?
We’re not likely to see fibre to the home for most New Zealand households until somewhere towards the end of the decade, so what are we going to do in the mean time? Hint: it’s already in place today. We just need to sort out the price point.
