Looks like Telecom’s xtra debacle of a migration to Yahoo! mail is not alone. News Corp owns an ISP called Sky in the UK, and they are migrating customers to the Google Apps. Well trying to. To start with there’s a 10 page pdf on how to change your POP settings over. Slashdot has more …
Category Archives: Broadband
Tokelau connects everybody
Tokelau’s three atolls have no airport nor harbour and are two days sailing away from Samoa and just two years ago its 1100 Polynesians looked and sounded like they were in another time and space in the past. Now they have free broadband Tokelau is, of course, still part of NZ. It’s a great story. …
Blame the invisible man
Part of the blame for the underinvestment by Telecom, and under0-reaction by the NZ Government has to go on the National Party’s Maurice Williamson: A rare written question from National Party communications spokesman Maurice Williamson to Communications Minister David Cunliffe in May… …asked Mr Cunliffe how New Zealand’s {broadband} ranking compared with its position in …
Telecom’s $1.4 billion investment
It’s great news. Score plus one for Paul Reynolds, who is making all the right moves as he embarks on the Telecom turnaround. I’m running on the promised ADSL2+ here in Perth, and it is fast enough for most purposes, with an upgrade path to 20 MB per second ahead for TCNZ. Sadly – that …
Youtube nz, australia launch
As Mauricio predicted, we now have downunder local versions of YouTube. Does this mean better delivery as well? or is it just a branding thing? If so, then the branding needs work. I’ve always looked at Youtube as a repository of video rather than a browsing site. This changes little for me, though perhaps the …
NZInstitute BB report: Digital media benefits are underestimated
Continuing a series of comments on the excellent NZ Institute Broadband report, we turn to page 8: Digital media. NZ Institute estimate $800m in extra benefits, with the tree showing $680m to $1.03bn. Here’s the top half: Let’s look the right hand sides. Current cost base = $2.1 billion. The source for this is unclear, …
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10 ways NZ Government can help NZX
There are more tales of companies leaving the NZX, and the question is asked (via a workshop) whether the Government could step in. I really fail to see what more this Government would materially do to solve for a market that is simply too small. Not that there aren’t any possibilities, just that most would …
Tomizone cool but too early.
Went to sign up for Tomizone, but their list of routers is – well there are just three. That’s a shame. Otherwise it is awesome, but they need to get the router list up to get critical mass. Wake me up when there are more, and really wake me up when you have the Apple …
Fast Broadband is here – in Perth that is
Finally I have broadband again. It took Perth based iiNet about a week to arm-twist Australian monopolist Telstra into connecting me. Their communications and service (24/7 help desk) has been faultless – which is stunning in this industry. iiNet uses ADSL2, and here’s what I get: From me at home in Perth to a local …
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It’s all about Gino’s
Next time you are in Fremantle (visiting me for example), make sure to drink lots of coffee, and eat breakfast and dinner at Gino’s cafe. Why? They are the only place in town offering free Wifi internet. The other cafe’s and restaurants have nothing, which is frighteningly archaic for a funky seaside tourist town. Meanwhile …
NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence growth benefits are limited
That’s the second part of the tree on page 7 of the NZ Institute report. It shows total annual benefits of $165-$335m in increased exports from decent broadband allowing better telepresence. Telepresence I guess is defined by the authors as basically video conferencing with big screens and higher resolution. To work it out the authors …
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NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence costs savings are minimal
Let’s start comments on the NZ Institute Broadband report with the top chunk of the slide on Telepresence, which is page 7. It is the first page that shows how the topline number of $2.7-$4.4 billion in economic benefits is built up. I believe the $95m in annual cost savings is far too high. NZ …
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The NZ Institute report – the benefits of broadband
If you are frustrated as hell at the ponderous pace of broadband adoption and speeds in New Zealand, then the New Zealand Institute report: DEFINING A BROADBAND ASPIRATION: HOW MUCH DOES BROADBAND MATTER AND WHAT DOES NEW ZEALAND NEED? is essential reading. The presentation is in classic McKinsey style, which is an acquired taste, but …
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Lance Wiggs 