Last time I stayed in Whanganui, the host at the motel I stayed at was interested as to why I was there – as he said, Whanganui is a destination. Its not on the main highway north so you have to choose to stop there, but usually because you’re heading to do something up country. But […]
Its only February and already we are seeing serious activity in the over the top content delivery – we’ve seen the partnership with Lightbox and Spark, we’ve heard about the probable NEON and Vodafone partnership, Quickflix is out there with their service, and we wait for the launch of NETFLIX next month. But, if like […]
MEDIA RELEASE Tue 20th Jan 2015 Sparks offer a good sign of the future TUANZ welcomes the announcement today by SPARK that they will offer to their over 600,000 broadband customers a free 12 months subscription to the video streaming service LIGHTBOX. “As we see the continued development of our broadband infrastructure, this sort of […]
You may be aware that any person or business can now get shorter .nz domain names – for example, anyname.nz – in addition to all existing registration options like ‘.co.nz’, ‘.org.nz’ and ‘.net.nz’. You should already have heard from your provider about this change and what it means. We don’t want you to miss out […]
This year at TUANZ we are going to talk a lot more about how the new broadband networks can be used to improve both our commercial and personal lives. One of those ways is accessing information that might have previously been available but only to those in the know. So, it was great to be able […]
My last blog post of 2014 was to draw attention to the latest TrueNet results around the increasing speeds of broadband access in New Zealand – and now over the break (well, the kiwi summer break) comes the latest report from Akamai. This tells a slightly different story and comes out with different numbers but […]
On the same day that the US Federal Communications Commission has reportedly raised the basic definition for ‘broadband’ to a minimum download speed of 10Mbps, and 1Mbps on the uplink, TrueNet have come out with the news that the average NZ broadband speed increased 34% over the previous 12 months. They are now seeing an average […]
If you’re a big user of video services such as Skype you’ll know that one of the more powerful things you can do with the service is to use it to make group video calls. Prior to April this year, you could only do this if one of the parties to the call had paid the price […]
I was fortunate to be able to catch up with one of my predecessors last Monday evening in the form of Ernie Newman, now a resident of the lovely town of Whakatane in the Eastern Bay of Plenty. He is currently involved in some very exciting projects with the two District Health Boards in the […]
Today the Commerce Commission released their next decision in the copper pricing process – the draft final pricing principal decision. Included in the 900 pages of documentation is the simple outcome of the Copper Line price (that is an unbundled line with no services attached) to rise from their initial price by $4.70 and the […]
