Earlier this year I wrote about the website Wiki NZ and how its founder and chief Lillian Grace (@GracefulLillian) along with her team was working to make New Zealand’s publicly available data accessible to everyone. As part of our general aim of talking about how we can use these great new broadband networks we suggested their […]
This week the Commerce Commission published its final Unfair Contract Terms Guidelines and its approach to enforcing the new unfair contract terms law when it takes effect next month. This relates to clauses in standard form consumer contracts where the terms have been offered to the consumer on a ‘take it or leave it’ basis, […]
This post is a guest blog from Bill Bennett, Freelance Journalist Broadband rarely gets discussed in the wider context of national infrastructure. Yet the government-sponsored Ultrafast Broadband project and the Rural Broadband Initiative are just two of a series of major infrastructure projects transforming New Zealand cities. To engineers there are two types of infrastructure. […]
Here is the submission made to the Commerce Commission on the 20th February on behalf of TUANZ, Internet NZ and Consumer NZ. Submission
Here is our submission made to the Commerce Commission on the 27th January in regards to their request on views on a Section 30R review of UBA/UCLL non-price terms. Submission
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 […]
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 […]
