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Telecom rolling out some new SME stuff

September 13, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, IT, New Zealand, SaaS

Telecom

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…

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Voda joins the 20th century, and other carrier gossip

August 7, 2008

Business, IT, New Zealand

Telecom, vodafone

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…

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

July 25, 2008

Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Strategy

Telecom

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…

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

July 1, 2008

Business, Design, IT, New Zealand, Strategy

marketing, Telecom, viral

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…

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Telecom – talking and listening…

May 12, 2008

IT, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

Telecom

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,…

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Why POTS isn’t dead….

April 21, 2008

IT, New business, New Zealand

Telecom, voip, worldxchange

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).…

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

March 13, 2008

Business

Broadband in NZ, nzwc, Telecom, unreasonablmen

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…

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