Woosh’s bid to lift the allocation cap in the 2.3/2.5GHz bands, in order to facilitate a $5.5 million sale to Craig Wireless, has failed. But chairman Rod Inglis appears unconcerned.
The Ministry of Economic Development has commissioned an independent review following the major outage that affected most of its websites last month.
The majority of the 15 government websites affected by Saturday’s outage are back up and running. However one site is only partly restored, and another remains down.
Fifteen government websites - including Companies Office, Patents Office and Consumer Affairs - are down following a failed IT upgrade on Saturday.
Submissions on regulations associated with the Copyright (Infringing File-Sharing) Act, belatedly released after the Ministry of Economic Development had made its decisions, show a number of people and organisations were still trying to change the government’s mind on provisions of the legislation outside the administrative aspects the MED asked them to comment on.