National party leader John Key today announced that a National lead government would invest $1.5 billion in a fibre "ultra-fast" broadband network. The idea is to have fibre to 75% of New Zealanders. Key says that in the first six years, priority will be given to businesses premises, schools, health facilities and then to the [...]
Tags: broadband, fibre, internet speed, network tasman, telecom
Although we have read of these kind of emails circulating in other counties (USA – Europe etc) in the past few months, a short time ago today it was bought to our attention that they been received by a few clients that have received threatening email. At first glance, they do look very threatening and [...]
Microsoft are soon to release the long awaited service pack 3 for Windows XP in the next few weeks. On 21 Apr it will be available to the techo industry players – and from 29 April it will be available to users as a download. It will be "pushed" to automatic updates from 10 June.
Having arrived home tonight to our Nelson city home, I discovered the phone was not working. No dial tone. Oh well, be quite nice without the phone ringing for a couple of hours.
The Southern Cross Cable provides most of the bandwidth from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US internet via 2 submarine communications cables. It was announced today that that capacity has now been extended by another 260Gbit/s and by the end of the year capacity would be 860Gbit/s.
Every day we see or hear horror stories about businesses who have invested a whole lot of money getting their website made by a great (or not so great) web design company. Some have spent several thousand dollars creating their site, and many spend even more money on search engine optimisation or search engine marketing [...]
The New Zealand Institute is suggesting that a single company owned by existing tele communications companies, utilities, local government and other private investors be given monolopy ownership of last mile connections – that is connections between exchanges or street cabinets and user premises.
Tags: broadband, fibre, new zealand