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GUEST BLOG : The Content Revolution

This post is a guest blog from Andrew Cushen, Work Programme Director at Internet NZ.  The Internet has the potential to completely change the model for content distribution here in New Zealand. Content could be one of the “killer apps” encouraging New Zealanders to take advantage of the improved connectivity options available thanks to the […]

Whanganui is Inspire’d

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 […]

Unbundling SKY Content

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 […]

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 […]