Wellington first on the NZ map as new Internet of Things wireless network beckons
“We want to help grow the Internet of Things ecosystem in New Zealand.”
“We want to help grow the Internet of Things ecosystem in New Zealand.”
It has been almost two weeks since Vodafone announced its intention to take over TelstraClear for $840 million. As number two in the market, the new Vodafone will have over a quarter of the fixed line internet market compared to Telecom’s half. What are customers and the broader industry going to get with the new Vodafone? What’s the impact of the number two and three players being combined?
InternetNZ is offering $100,000 for policy and legal-related research projects, with a funding cap of $20,000 per project.
An InternetNZ survey on the public’s view of the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System (DCEFS) shows that less than half the respondents had heard of it.
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) has published a report on options and issues for the proposed “digital dividend” spectrum auction by Government.
Over the past year, Australian ISPs have lifted their data caps “significantly”, says a new InternetNZ report, as a result of a competitive “data cap war” among ISPs. “Terabyte caps are now common there,” it says, “but New Zealand’s caps remain among the lowest in the world.”
InternetNZ collected revenue of $7.22 million in the last financial year, of which $7.15 million was fees from .nz registrations and the remainder from income such as bank interest and membership fees.
InternetNZ is keen to see how it can help with the government’s recently released Cyber Security Strategy, particularly by working on measures to identify and combat malware and infected computers, says CEO Vikram Kumar.
The Finance and Expenditure committee has recommended that the controversial Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband, and Other Matters) Amendment Bill be passed – with some changes.
InternetNZ policy director Jordan Carter has resigned, to concentrate on his political career.
InternetNZ CEO Vikram Kumar says its organisation has heard that the government may call a halt the Ultra Fast Broadband initiative following last week’s earthquake in Christchurch.
The NZ Computer Society is making a renewed effort to spark collaboration among the multiple trade and professional organisations in the ICT sector.
The moot at the inaugural Computerworld Fry-Up debates is that “Ultra-Fast Broadband will make telcos irrelevant to the end-user”, but the audience at the Wellington event yesterday took it as a cue for a wide-ranging discussion of the delivery of UFB and its consequences for the economy.
Memories of my school days are a bit hazy and admittedly more convenient than accurate. One memory that does stand out is Sir Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion. You will probably remember it as something like; “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”.