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
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
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
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
Chorus is hitting back at accusations it’s trying to rush the copper broadband price review. InternetNZ says the network operator’s trying to push the Commerce Commission into a decision too quickly. But Chorus spokesman Ian Bonner says they’re just looking for a clear way forward. “The retailers don’t know exactly what they’re going to have
