Fibre to the Home proposal finalised
I’m very very happy with today’s announcement from Steven Joyce: Communications and Information Technology Minister Hon Steven Joyce today released the details of the government’s $1.5 billion...
View ArticleMobile termination rates
As usual, Chris Keall has the best summary of what the offers are on mobile termination rates: Commerce Commission proposal Voice calls: immediate halving of MTR on voice calls from 14 cents to 7.5...
View ArticleKeall’s Tech Power List
Chris Keall at NBR (sub needed) blogs his power list for the tech sector. Some of his picks are: 1 Bill English, Finance and Infrastructure Minister 2 Steven Joyce, Comms and IT Minister 3 Paul...
View ArticleKeall on Dotcom and fibre
Chris Keall at NBR writes: There are a number of reasons a Kim Dotcom-backed cable will never fly. Pacific Fibre co-founder Rod Drury added another when he talked to NBR this morning: the accused...
View ArticleGarner and Keall on Dotcom and his party
Duncan Garner blogs: There’s one major and terminal problem with Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party: he can’t be the leader. He can only be the shadowy, backroom figure that pulls the strings. He will do...
View ArticleKeall’s advice for each party
Chris Keall gives succinct advice for each party in NBR: Labour – change the leader and scrap the primary-style contest Internet-Mana – give up and go home Conservatives – media training for Colin...
View ArticleKeall on the Dotcom case
Chris Keall writes at NBR: I’ve previously written that Megaupload’s cash-incentive payments would loom large in Kim Dotocom and co’s extradition case. And so it proved yesterday as the Crown alleged...
View ArticleThe stupid iPhone tariff
Chris Keall writes at NZ Herald: US President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he might slap a 10 per cent tariff on iPhones and other Apple gear imported from China. Given that earlier...
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