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Spark’s offer a good sign of the future

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 […]

.nz domain name changes – act now before your options expire

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 […]

Welcome to Wiki New Zealand

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 […]

NZ Broadband speeds increasing – there’s more news

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 […]

NZ Broadband speeds increasing – TrueNet

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 […]

Using Skype across the family

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 […]

EHealth in Eastern Bay of Plenty

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 […]

Launch of “Give Someone a Start”

Last week in Auckland, our member and partner Work and Income, launched their “Give Someone a Start” programme at a business networking event.   We are a supporter of this initiative and committed to helping spread the word. At the event the Chief Executive of MSD (Brendan Boyle) spoke about government and business working together and doing things […]

Internet NZ – Canterbury Community Grants

At NetHui South last weekend our friends at InternetNZ announced a round of community grants for Canterbury – if you are in the region the details of how to apply are below. Why we love community grants round: Canterbury edition As part of our mission to work alongside the Internet community of New Zealand, we help […]