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Category Archives: telecom
The mainsteam starts to hear about web 2.0
Bugger – now they are letting the CEO’s know about the Web 2.0 marketing techniques. The WSJ has published The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World, which has the not so SEO friendly url of http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122884677205091919.html, but contains … Continue reading
Organic Torpedo7 beats inept inorganic Ferrit
A mentioned, we’ve covered Torpedo7 before on this blog. That was the surprising finding after Ferrit had been beaten by Torpedo7 in domestic unique browsers for the week to July 20, 2008. Organic versus Inorganic growth It turns out that comparing Ferrit … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, media, telecom
Tagged Deloitte 500, Ferrit, organic growth, torpedo7
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Torpedo7 NZ’s fastest tech grower
Congratulations to eCommerce sensation Torpedo7, the 87th fastest growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific this year. We’ve covered Torpedo7 before on this blog, and it’s great to see their traffic numbers are being converted into … Continue reading
Paul Reynolds on Ferrit
The nationwide embarrassment. The site we love to, err, dislike. Ferrit. Paul Reynolds answered two questions on Ferrit (they were not mine but from BarnacleBarnes). How did he do? Ferrit Q. One word: Ferrit. With an investment north of $30 … Continue reading
Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds answers questions
Over at Geekzone Mauricio collected a bunch of questions for Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds. Today the answers came through and Mauricio has posted them – check them out. Kudos to Dr. Reynolds for answering a substantial percentage of the questions … Continue reading
Telstra iPhone: $13 per GB or $15,000 per GB? Your choice
A welcome text from Telstra the other day – my iPhone data plan has been upgraded fro free to 9 GB from 3GB. That’s great – full prices are here. But sadly I have data switched off at the moment, … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, media, NZ Business, telecom
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All my utilities have now been arbitrarily cut off
First they came for my electricity, and I did nothing. Then they came for my gas, and I did nothing. Then they came for my electricity again, and I got mad and blogged about it. Now they have come for … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Business, Life, NZ Business, telecom
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Let me pay my bill Telstra
Dumb: not letting me set up auto pay by credit card when I got my iPhone Moronic: being unable to pay my Telstra bill using the iPhone Archaic and lacking in security: paying using DTMF tones via mobile phone. Still … Continue reading
Digicell – getting bigger and bigger by helping people
Digicell is cleaning up – earning dollars by targeting poor countries with their mobile phone services, and earning kudos for liberating their populations from inefficient and often corrupt Governments and incumbents. Owner Denis O’Brien’s motto (via Forbes): Give phones to … Continue reading
Posted in Global Macro Trends, Internet Business, telecom
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Vodafone and data warehousing: A translation of that abstract
<cynic mode firmly switched on, with apologies to Rachel> Via Mauricio, it seems from this, that Vodafone are using data warehousing techniques to drive customer retention. I’ve had a go at interpreting the abstract of “The Customer Retention Journey at … Continue reading
Telcos: stay out of the content game
Via Stuff, and the SMH, a headline that seemingly spells bad news for the iPhone in Australia: “iPhone not so multimedia friendly in Aust“ The article goes on to say that the iPhone is unable to play many of the … Continue reading
Trade Me lite is here – for your phone
Go to m.trademe.co.nz – even from your mac (or PC if you really must) browser. It’s simple, stark even and light. A staggering 6.9k home page, versus 292kb for the www home page. Forget about browsing any way but by … Continue reading
Posted in auctions, Internet Business, NZ Business, telecom, Trade Me
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iPhones and Telecom
iPhones may be sold by Telecom? My head is going to explode. However AT&T is also struggling with a similar customer service reputation to Telecom’s, and so the price a telco pays for selling the iPhone (kickbacks to Apple) is … Continue reading
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Would you let Telecom design your website?
Telecom is launching something – I’m not really sure what it is, but apparently it will be some sort of Business Oriented Internet plan/ISP – where you get bundled internet access, hosting and things like Xero. Business broadband plans will … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, Internet Business, NZ Business, telecom
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Why intervention is needed for Telecom and not for Auckland
Falafulu Fisi asks an excellent question to the previous post on Auckland Airport: “Aren’t both Auckland Airport & Telecom private companies? Why would you want to say that the government is an interventionist regarding the CPPIB attempt to buying shares … Continue reading
Posted in Broadband, Business, Investing, Life, NZ Business, telecom
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