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New Zealand telecoms after Huawei - Bill Bennett
网页Lower impact at One New Zealand. One New Zealand has always had less exposure to Huawei than Spark or 2degrees. The company says: “One NZ doesn’t use Huawei equipment in our mobile access or mobile core networks. Instead we have a long-standing partnership with Nokia to provide 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G for our customers.
What is this site about and who is Bill Bennett?
网页Bill Bennett is a freelance New Zealand technology and business journalist. He started writing about technology in 1980 as staff writer on Practical Computing magazine. He left the UK in 1987 to work in Wellington on The Dominion as Computer Page editor. He spent a decade working in Sydney, Australia. There he was managing editor of two ...
The year we filled in the telecommunications gaps
网页In the first part of this week’s technology segment on RNZ’s Nine to Noon show I talk with Kathryn Ryan about some of the big trends in tech this year, starting with plugging gaps in broadband coverage, the work done by the Rural Connectivity Group and extending the 5G network.. The most recent update from MBIE was in September. At the time the UFB …
NZ broadband faces competitive reset - Bill Bennett
网页Low Earth orbit satellites, 5G and a fibre speed bump are set to reboot New Zealand broadband competition.. It’s a decade since the first customers connected to Ultrafast broadband. At that time fibre looked the likely Kiwi broadband future.
New Zealand falls behind 5G availability pack - Bill Bennett
网页ComCom sets out expectations on surcharges. An open letter from the Commerce Commission calls on businesses to be more reasonable about surcharges.. John Small, who chairs the Commerce Commission says: “…our intent is not to promote or discourage surcharging but to focus on ensuring that where merchants do surcharge, that they do so …
Benoit Felten on the UFB fibre upgrade - billbennett.co.nz
网页In late 2021 New Zealand’s fibre wholesale companies boosted standard speeds on their networks from 100 mbps to 300 mbps. Paris-based analyst Benoit Felton puts the move into perspective: As an international analyst of all things broadband, I use few examples more frequently than New Zealand when discussing decisive and effective policy.
New Zealand got lucky twice with fast broadband - Bill Bennett
网页Most New Zealanders have world class broadband. Our UFB network proved its worth again since the Covid–19 forced large numbers to work from home.
Starlink fills gaps but doesn’t fix NZ rural coverage - Bill Bennett
网页Starlink’s business class dish costs a whopping NZ$4,374.80 up front. Plans start at NZ$426 a month for a terabyte of data, a six terabyte plan costs NZ$2507 a month. This is more than 20 times what a user would pay for a fibre connection with the same performance.
Extending New Zealand's fibre network - Bill Bennett
网页2019年11月28日 · The UFB1 fibre network reaches three quarters of New Zealand. UFB2 will stretch that to around 87 per cent. We can take fibre further, but that needs taxpayer money. A lot of it. When New Zealand built its copper telephone network, government saw it as a nation-building exercise. Copper phone wires reached almost everywhere.
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