New Zealand’s rural broadband problem we’re not talking about
We’ve all heard about the digital divide. About how disadvantaged New Zealanders don’t have the same access to broadband as their better off neighbours. We also know about the rural-urban digital...
View ArticleFive new regional digital hubs
Regional economic development minister Shane Jones dipped into the Provincial Growth Fund to find $2 million for five more digital hubs. The hubs provide free wi-fi, co-working space and advice for...
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Covid-19 highlights UFB investment wisdom
New Zealand’s broadband has performed well during the Covid–19 lockdown. Our networks have been pushed well beyond expectation. For the most part, they have not been found wanting. That’s the good...
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Vocus picks up Stuff Fibre
A medium-sized consolidation play for the Australian-owned telco. Vocus will grow its customer base by 10 percent when it absorbs Stuff Fibre. The Australian telco picked up the media company owned ISP...
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Remote work now mainstream
There’s a widespread feeling that remote work is now mainstream. An assumption that we will never go back to the old ways of working. If that’s true, it’s been a long time coming. For years experts and...
View ArticleLockdown broadband performance: Fibre, copper delivered, fixed wireless not...
Demand was off the scale. Yet New Zealand’s fibre and copper broadband networks almost never skipped a beat during the 20200 Covid-19 lockdown. Both technologies did well enough to earn a tick from the...
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Sky has a broadband mountain to climb
After months of speculation Sky says it will enter the broadband market next year. The move is one of the industry’s worst kept secrets. Sky says it will start by targeting its existing TV customers....
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New Zealand’s weird showing in ITU affordability rankings
If you look at the latest International Telecommunications Union affordability rankings you’d get the impression that New Zealand is doing better than Australia at mobile, but is behind on fixed...
View ArticleA century for the Rural Connectivity Group
Gebbies Valley is the site of the Rural Connectivity Group latest mobile broadband tower. I had to look the place up on a map before writing this story. That’s kind of the point. The RCG’s job is to...
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Huawei’s Gigabit Gap report shows NZ broadband way out ahead of Australia
Australian title Business IT covers a report released by Huawei: Australia suffering gigabit gap despite spending A$51B. The report says it cost A$4,500 for each NBN connection network, a total of A$51...
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