We need a New Zealand CTO: Drury
Xero chief executive and Pacific Fibre founder Rod Drury is calling for a national chief technology officer to create a vision for New Zealand’s fibre-connected future.
Xero chief executive and Pacific Fibre founder Rod Drury is calling for a national chief technology officer to create a vision for New Zealand’s fibre-connected future.
Maori interests are lining up to play a more active role in telecommunications, as the release of spectrum necessary to build 4G mobile networks draws closer.
Identity crisis
Vodafone global chief Vittorio Colao is visiting New Zealand next month to address staff and meet with key customers.
Minister Steven Joyce says he met with the Huawei CEO when he was visiting Shenzhen as part of an ICT trade mission to China last month.
Strange bedfellows
Crown Fibre Holdings chair Simon Allen has defended board member Murray Milner in light of Labour’s claim over possible conflict of interest.
Telecom and Vodafone have submitted a joint response to the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI), it was announced this morning.
The request for proposals for the $300 million Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) closes tomorrow, with bids still being put together at the eleventh hour.
Ten months after claiming the Telecommunications Carriers Forum (TCF) is immoral, TeamTalk chief executive David Ware has joined the organisation.
TelstraClear’s outage, which lasted almost 24 hours, affected 180,000 email accounts, and the company has yet to identify the problem or discuss compensation.
If a foot and mouth outbreak were to occur, New Zealands’s GDP would drop by 10 per cent and it would set the country back by four to five years in its economic trajectory. That’s according to the Ted Coats, Chairman of the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) — an electronic tracking system for farm animals set up by the government to electronically track the nation’s farm animals.
Further announcements as to what companies will partner the government in the Ultra Fast Broadband network are now overdue. To date prospective partners in three regions – Timaru, central North Island and Whangarei - have been identified, but negotiations have not (as far as we know) been completed.
Vodafone says its technology team is working round the clock to fix an issue with its 3G network that was first raised by a Geekzone blogger last month.
Perhaps Telecom could get this guy to front the next briefing