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RIP 0867
Posted 21 hours 24 minutes ago by Ernie Newman
Thank heaven its all over at last.Its taken more than eleven years after Telecom stunned the industry in May 1999 by diverting all dial-up calls to an 0867 prefix and thereby depriving Clear Communications of its sizeable wholesale business hosting a range of smaller ISPs. But at last the High Court has cleared Telecom.... >> more
Categories: Broadband | Fixed line carriers | ISPs | Regulatory | TUANZ policy
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Telecom adusts prices for gst increase
Posted 21 hours 33 minutes ago by Ernie Newman
Telecom is advertising new charges to reflect the government's increase in GST from 12.5% to 15%.With some plans the prices are up by around 2.5%. In others' they're absorbing the increase - reducing the price of the service so that the GST-inclusive price remains the same, or rounding the price up or down to arrive at a sensible... >> more
Categories: Broadband | Fixed line carriers | Wireless carriers
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Rural Broadband - a Leap Backwards?
Posted Fri 27 August 2010 @ 7:04 a.m. by Ernie Newman
You really do have to wonder what's going on with government's rural broadband project - and inferentially, what spillover there might be to the urban Ultra Fast Broadband process.Minister Joyce announced yesterday that the rural project was being re-cast so that only national bids will be contemplated.Regional aspirants and... >> more
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