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  • Is There a Case for Ultrafast Broadband?

    June 6, 2011

    Business
    broadband, Crown Fibre Holdings, government, nbn, New Zealand, Pacific Fibre, Sam Morgan, ufb, YouTube
     

    Ever since I was asked to present to the joint Australian, South Korean and New Zealand KANZ Broadband Governmental summit a month ago I’ve been ruminating  about the justification for Governments spending huge sums on rolling out ultrafast broadband…

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  • Build the use case – coverage or speed?

    August 6, 2008

    Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    broadband
     

    I’ve been taking part lately in a broadband strategy group looking to improve Internet access in North Canterbury – it’s an important discussion that I’m happy to be part of. I’ve got pretty annoyed however about the hollow platitudes…

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  • Broadband uptake survey

    July 10, 2008

    Business, Efficiency, IT, Society, Strategy
    broadband
     

    GigaOm pointed out a couple of new pieces of research about broadband penetration, speeds and consumer demand in the US. It’s a pretty interesting report but there are a couple of parts that stand out for me; Low income…

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  • Finland and New Zealand, a comparison…

    July 1, 2008

    Design, Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    broadband, finland, New Zealand
     

    It would be an understatement to say that broadband in NZ is a topical issue.  Most of what I read isn’t objective or well thought out. I’ve said before the stated goal of the government to “get us into…

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  • A neutral perspective on broadband in NZ

    June 26, 2008

    Business, Design, Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Strategy
    broadband, epitiro
     

    At the recent telcon9 conference in Auckland, Michael Cranna, managing director of Epitiro Technologies had some interesting things to say about our broadband. Epitiro is a global provider of broadband benchmarking data and hence is apparently as neutral as…

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  • How does our broadband really stack up?

    May 7, 2008

    Economic Development, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    broadband
     

    The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) think tank from the States has compiled a report ranking 30 countries broadband offerings by a composite measure based on three indicators: household broadband penetration, average speed weighted by percentage of subscribership…

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  • No One solution

    April 9, 2008

    Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    adsl, broadband, fibre, mobile, Telecom
     

    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…

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  • Isn’t the answer mobile?

    April 1, 2008

    IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy
    broadband, llu, mobile, Telecom
     

    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…

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