Tag Archives: Telecom

13/09/2008 Posted in Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, SaaS 3 Comments

Telecom rolling out some new SME stuff

By Ben Kepes

While I was away Telecom announced a new host of options for SMEs. Basically it seems that Telecom have identified that SMEs in New Zealand are time-constrained and one of the things that gets overlooked in their busy-ness is a complete set of web presences. To this end they’ve partnered

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07/08/2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand 4 Comments

Voda joins the 20th century, and other carrier gossip

By Ben Kepes

It seems Vodafone New Zealand have rolled out their own forums. Thus far there are a few posts – mainly from Voda spin doctor (and really nice guy by the way) Paul Brislen. We should be positive that Voda is creating a forum for discussion – I feel for Paul

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25/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Strategy 7 Comments

Some new services for the general public (who will never see this post ‘cos they don’t read blogs)

By Ben Kepes

This is one of those posts that many will respond to saying "oh but Google/Yahoo/Facebook/Symantec/AVG/Lavasoft has been doing that forever and for free – what’s so new about that?" Which is sort of a valid point and sort of not. I live in two worlds – I’m an early adopter

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01/07/2008 Posted in Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Strategy 6 Comments

My take on viral marketing, corporate’s and mass market….

By Ben Kepes

This morning there is much discussion about the latest advertisement created by Telecom New Zealand. The video (see below) is apparently an office scene after Friday night drinks with staff lip-syncing to a popular song. So far so good – cutting edge, viral-esque and different. Things get a bit more

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12/05/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy 6 Comments

Telecom – talking and listening…

By Ben Kepes

A comment on an earlier post seemed worthy of it’s own discussion. Relating to some earlier posting about Telecom’s plans re SMEs and SaaS, I’m stoked to see that Victoria Crone from Telecom has both read the original post, and fronted up and replied. In my opinion it shows a

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21/04/2008 Posted in IT, New business, New Zealand 1 Comment

Why POTS isn’t dead….

By Ben Kepes

POTS is telco industry talk for Plain Old Telephone Service – in other words the boring old analogue phone that works on those rusty bits of copper wire coming into your place (and swinging in the breeze no doubt). In my office we’ve moved to a VoIP world, whereby our

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09/04/2008 Posted in Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 2 Comments

No One solution

By The Unreasonablemen

Last week I wrote the post “Isn’t the answer mobile?” which created a great deal of interest, commentary & thought provoking questions. Thanks to those who commented, some of what you wrote provides the basis for this post, as well as comments on Rod Drury’s blog post about FibreCo. I

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01/04/2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy 11 Comments

Isn’t the answer mobile?

By The Unreasonablemen

Before I start, let me just say I’m not an engineer, so if I get some of the technical bits wrong, forgive me. But I genuinely think I’ve got the ramifications correct! There’s been a fair amount of debate about how NZ gets better faster broadband. This isn’t a simple

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13/03/2008 Posted in Business 7 Comments

This one’s straight from the “what the..” category

By The Unreasonablemen

From computerworld this morning Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds has joined the board of XConnect Global Networks, which provides VoIP and IP-based services From the Xconnect website XConnect’s award winning services enable over 400 VoIP service providers and carriers worldwide to peer with millions of VoIP endpoints. Am I alone

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Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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