10th June 2015 Today’s release at NZ National Field Days by TUANZ member, KPMG, of the Agribusiness Agenda 2015 highlights the importance of improving access in the rural sector to high speed broadband. The Agenda notes that since the last release in 2014 there has been an increased priority attached to delivering high speed rural […]
Today’s release of a discussion document by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment on options for improving land access for telecommunications is a welcome step from the Government towards expediting complex fibre installs according to the CEO of the Telecommunications Users Association of NZ, Craig Young. “We have for some time been pushing the […]
This guest blog* is from a posting originally on the website of TUANZ past CEO, Ernie Newman. (Original post here) “The Rural Connectivity Symposium today, run by TUANZ and the Rural Health Alliance, was inspirational. It was incredibly heartening to see these organisations leading the connectivity debate. And it delivered a first for me – the […]
The news that the Southern Cross Cable suffered its second cut in three months is a timely reminder of our reliance on that network for international connectivity from New Zealand to the rest of the world. Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) CEO, Craig Young said “while we recognise that the Southern Cross […]
Yesterday SPARK launched a campaign to remind the general user community that the Commerce Commission process to decide the UCLL/UBA FPP (Final Pricing Principe) price is at a very important point. Right now the Commission is working through the detail of submissions and cross submissions and are looking to release a further draft determination on the […]
TUANZ is a not-for-profit membership association which comprises over 150 members, predominantly large organisations with a strong dependency on telecommunications technology as well as small enterprises. We also serve a representative group of SMEs and individual members. These small businesses and residential users are also the customers of our large corporate members, who are just […]
TUANZ and RHAANZ are pleased to formally announce that their jointly hosted Rural Connectivity Symposium will take place in Wellington at the James Cook Hotel on Thursday 28th May 2015. “The aim of the day is to gather representatives of rural users as well as service providers to learn and discuss possible priorities around the […]
This guest blog is from a posting originally on the website of Lowndes Jordan, and authored by Rachael Cederwall and Rick Shera (TUANZ member). (Original post here) “The Federal Court of Australia has decided that Australian ISPs must provide users’ details to Voltage Pictures, the owner of the copyright in the film Dallas Buyers Club. Voltage identified 4,700 or […]
16th March 2015 MEDIA RELEASE – TUANZ and RHAANZ TUANZ and RHAANZ welcome RBI2 announcements The announcements on the 12th March by the Hon Amy Adams, Minister for Communications in regards to the RBI2 and Mobile Blackspots programmes have been welcomed by the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand and the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa […]
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 […]
