Telecommunications
Internet cable operator cuts prices by 44%
New Zealand Herald
18 January 2012
18 January 2012
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The operator of New Zealand's only international internet cable has cut wholesale prices by 44 per cent as one of its potential competitors announced progress on a rival project.More>
ComCom finds own broadband barrier
Waikato Times
17 January 2012
17 January 2012
The Commerce Commission will not webcast a much-anticipated conference examining impediments to the take-up of ultrafast broadband as it says the costs are ''prohibitive''.More>
New, fast Trans-Tasman cable by 2013
Newstalk ZB
17 January 2012
17 January 2012
A new communications cable linking Australia and New Zealand is set to be completed by 2013.
A press release on the Huawei Marine website says an agreement to carry out a marine survey between the two countries has been completed.More>
No connection fee for ultrafast broadband
Waikato Times
16 January 2012
16 January 2012
Residential customers wanting to connect to Ultrafast Fibre's new ultrafast broadband network will not be charged a connection fee.
Maxine Elliott, chief executive of Ultrafast Fibre, which is seven months into building a 3000-kilometre fibre-optic cable network in the North Island, said there woulMore>
Competition and scrutiny forcing call costs down
Radio New Zealand
21 December 2011
21 December 2011
The Telecommunications Users Association says the cost of mobile calls to those on rival networks should continue to fall, due to greater scrutiny from the Commerce Commission and stronger competition.More>
No room for strangers on radio spectrum
Manawatu Standard
20 December 2011
20 December 2011
The "digital dividend" radio spectrum freed up by the closure of analogue television broadcasts is even more likely to be carved up among Vodafone, Telecom and 2degrees after the Commerce Commission told the Economic Development Ministry there is little chance of a fourth mobile telephone network opMore>
UFB may carry extra costs
The Southland Times
20 December 2011
20 December 2011
Homeowners and businesses that are set far off the road or have awkward access may have to pay thousands of dollars to connect to the $3.5 billion ultrafast broadband network.More>
Ultrafast broadband cost to consumers looked at
Radio New Zealand
20 December 2011
20 December 2011
The Commerce Commission has released the first of three issues papers about the uptake of ultrafast broadband.More>
Get The Answers: Ultra-fast broadband will help with competitive edge
New Zealand Herald
19 December 2011
19 December 2011
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Easy access to fibre will smash the barriers of distance, writes Scott Bartlett.
Ultra-fast broadband is going to be revolutionary for all NZ businesses as it makes fibre, which is a robust and stable platform, more affordable.More>
New boss 'must be open like Reynolds'
New Zealand Herald
14 December 2011
14 December 2011
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Broker says transparency Scotsman brought to Telecom should continue
The new chief executive of Telecom should follow the lead set by Paul Reynolds of being open and honest to shareholders, Craigs Investment Partners broker Chris Timms said yesterday.More>
Kim Campbell: A business wish-list for Christmas
New Zealand Herald
14 December 2011
14 December 2011
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Government leaders invited to share economic vision, writes Kim Campbell, chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association.
Twelve days before the election the National Party released a list of 120 policy points said to be their Economic Development Action Plan though just 26 More>
Mr Fix-it becomes super minister
New Zealand Herald
14 December 2011
14 December 2011
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Steven Joyce has emerged as the economic tsar of John Key's Government, arguably a quasi super-minister or treasurer in all but name.
It is Joyce who has had the most important elevation in the Key Cabinet; not Hekia Parata although she will be influential in the longer-term.More>
Telecommunications with a twist
The Southland Times
13 December 2011
13 December 2011
Wireless communications are booming, so much so that we may soon come up against the perennial problem of spectrum depletion.
Radio frequencies are a finite resource, and although governments around the world are moving to allocate as much of the radio spectrum as possible to mobile communications,More>
NZ debuts high on OECD wireless broadband league table
National Business Review
5 December 2011
5 December 2011
Wireless broadband. Source: OECD. Click graph to enlarge.
Fixed-line broadband. Source: OECD. Click graph to enlarge.
Just released figures from the OECD, released today for the period June 2010 - June 2011 - show New Zealand making a splash in the international broadband charts.More>
Telco deal explanation sought
The Southland Times
2 December 2011
2 December 2011
The Economic Development Ministry has issued a "please explain" letter to broadband provider Woosh Wireless and Canadian suitor Craig Wireless over a transaction designed to rescue their proposed merger.More>
Key comes out of corner swinging
New Zealand Herald
30 November 2011
30 November 2011
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Four days after the election and it looks as if Prime Minister John Key is ready to spend some more political capital and deliver a second-term agenda which will keep business onside.More>
Subsea cable rivals quiet on progress
The Timaru Herald
19 November 2011
19 November 2011
The two companies vying to lay new submarine communications cables to New Zealand to break the Southern Cross Cable's near monopoly over international internet links have failed to report any progress in the past two months.More>
Taranaki man Fonterra's first Maori director
Taranaki Daily News
16 November 2011
16 November 2011
Taranaki's David MacLeod has become the first Maori director of dairy giant Fonterra and the region's first director in four years.
The politician, company director and businessman joins incumbents John Monaghan, Eketahuna, and Waikato's Jim van der Poel on the board after an election fought nationMore>
Internet group urges caution over spectrum
Radio New Zealand
14 November 2011
14 November 2011
Internet New Zealand wants the Government to delay dividing the old analogue television spectrum so it can see what other countries are doing with their frequencies.More>
$7m Woosh Wireless deal may fall through
The Timaru Herald
4 November 2011
4 November 2011
The proposed US$5.5 million (NZ$7m) acquisition of Woosh Wireless by Canadian company Craig Wireless may have hit the rocks after the Government declined to allow the two companies to pool their radio spectrum.More>
Victoria Park tunnel country's first to allow hazardous goods
New Zealand Herald
1 November 2011
1 November 2011
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Auckland's Victoria Park motorway tunnel, opening to traffic in two weeks, has been rated to take dangerous goods banned from structures such as the Northern Gateway toll road.More>
Ericsson scores Chorus Crown fibre coup
National Business Review
1 November 2011
1 November 2011
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Big numbers using mobile internet - Stats NZ
National Business Review
13 October 2011
13 October 2011
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Telecom to pay rivals $31 million in ComCom discrimination settlement
National Business Review
13 October 2011
13 October 2011
The Commerce Commission has reached a $31.6 million settlement with Telecom over alleged discrimination under the Telecom Separation Undertakings - or rules of good market behaviour as a near-monopoly - that form part of the Telecommunications...More>