Media Release – High quality connectivity remains critical to our rural future 12th June 2018 With National Fieldays only a day away, TUANZ has today reiterated the importance of a maintained focus on continued improvement to connectivity in rural New Zealand. “While last week’s news that the Government has successfully brought forward the completion date […]
27th March 2018 TUANZ welcomes the broader scope of the Commerce Commissions mobile market review. TUANZ welcomes today’s release of the scope for the review of the mobile market that the Commerce Commission will undertake this year. “We have been consistent over the last few years in calling for a fully independent study of the […]
8th February 2018 Enable And TUANZ Partner to Develop Future Technology Leaders in Canterbury Christchurch fibre broadband provider, Enable, is the inaugural foundation sponsor of the Christchurch chapter of FLINT, or Future Leaders in Technology, a national leadership programme run by TUANZ (Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand) that provides networking development opportunities for the […]
8th December 2017 – TUANZ MEDIA RELEASE. At this week’s TUANZ Board meeting, Liz Gosling was unanimously elected to take up the role of Chair. Immediate past Chair, Pat O’Connell had earlier indicated that it was time to hand the responsibility on to the next person. Liz is the tenth chair since incorporation in 1986, […]
27th September 2017 – TUANZ MEDIA RELEASE At last week’s Annual General Meeting, TUANZ Chair Pat O’Connell welcomed the return of all re-standing members to the TUANZ board, saying that their re-election shows that members back the direction of the organisation as it moves forward. He also welcomed one new member, Clayton Balle of Westpac, […]
8th August 2017 : TUANZ MEDIA RELEASE TUANZ welcomes the introduction of the Telecommunications (New Regulatory Framework) Amendment Bill TUANZ welcomes today’s long awaited introduction of the Telecommunications Amendment Bill which is the outcome of the review of the current regulatory framework. “Earlier this year we stated our support of many of the proposed […]
31st July 2017 : TUANZ MEDIA RELEASE TUANZ supports a review of the mobile telecommunications market. TUANZ welcomes the recent letter sent from the Minister for Communications to the Telecommunications Commissioner in which he expresses his interest in the Commission undertaking a review of the mobile telecommunications market. “We have previously stated in our Telco […]
1st June 2017 : TUANZ MEDIA RELEASE Today the Government announced the latest decisions from the review of the current Telecommunications Act that has been underway for the last few years. “ We have been active in ensuring that our members views were well represented throughout the process and Based on our initial viewing of […]
26 January 2017 TUANZ welcomes today’s long awaited announcement around the extension of the Ultra-Fast Broadband programme beyond the current 75% of population coverage. “As the only independent organisation representing the users of digital technology, we have long advocated for fibre based services to be available to as many New Zealander’s as possible, and so […]
15 December 2016 The recent report into the impact of broadband on productivity gains produced by researchers Motu misses the point, says TUANZ. Motu’s report focuses on companies signing up for UFB between 2010 and 2014 – a period of fast growth in UFB uptake which saw usage more than doubled to 22% of all […]