Handshake Deal
Friday, 19 September 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Vocus Communications
Wednesday, 17 September 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Chorus has today announced the five towns that have gone through to the final round of the Gigatown competition. Dunedin, Gisborne, Nelson, Timaru and Wanaka have all won places in the final and will go on to compete for the chance to become New Zealand’s first Gigatown. Chorus can also confirm that Orcon has signed
Internet-NZ
Sunday, 31 August 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
InternetNZ has welcomed a move by ICT Minister Amy Adams to top up the six-year, $300 million Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) with $100 million more in contestable funding if National is re-elected. Ms Adams has also promised $50 million to boost mobile phone coverage in remote areas. The policy would be funded by extending the
Monday, 25 August 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Thursday, 31 July 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Wednesday, 16 July 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Sunday, 29 June 2014 / Published in News, Views & Coffee Breaks, Radicall
2degrees has switched on its 4G network in Auckland this morning, following a three-month trial. 4G now live on 2degrees in 72 sites around central Auckland (see a coverage map here). The carrier says it will triple Auckland coverage by the end of the year. It also expects to make 4G available in Hamilton, Wellington and
Tuesday, 10 June 2014 / Published in News, Views & Coffee Breaks, Radicall
On May 14, Chorus said it would double the speed of its fastest residential UFB fibre plans to 200Mbit/s from July, wholesaling the new service to ISPs for $55. Today, Ultrafast Fibre (UFF) said it will introduce a 1Gbit/s (1000Mbit/s) residential fibre plan from July, wholesaled for $65. 1Gbit/s is the speed the winning town
Wednesday, 21 May 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Telecom fixes major network glitch Telecom says it has now fixed the hardware fault that caused chaos on its network today. The Mayoral Drive exchange network switch failure interrupted an upgrade to Telecom’s prepay mobile service, which was rendered inaccessible. The upgrade will now be completed tonight. Telecom has also confirmed that as well as
Monday, 19 May 2014 / Published in News, News, Views & Coffee Breaks
Telecom NZ suffers large-scale systems failure Nationwide issue also downs Chorus. A systems failure this morning has taken a large portion of Telecom New Zealand’s nationwide users offline, leaving customers without access to online systems for several hours and with no service restoration in sight. The ongoing fault follows a planned upgrade yesterday. Telecom NZ-related