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    The decision released by the Commerce Commission yesterday stating that prepay mobile services are covered under number portability seems like a fitting end to 2007. Number portability was quietly introduced to the user on April 1 after years of wrangling and it seemed to herald a new era in the New Zealand telecommunication... >> more

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  • Is Xtra in Control of its Technology?

    Ernie Newman

    What on earth is going on at embattled Xtra? Imagine having 180 suburban customers off line for ten days and apparently having no notion what is wrong nor how to fix it!A TUANZ staff member told me this ongoing saga about their home Xtra account:"For the past ten days I have been unable to access the Internet... >> more

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  • Broadband the Answer to the OECD Report - Hodgson

    Ernie Newman

    Economic Development Minister Pete Hodgson is onto it! Broadband is one of just two examples of issues he siezed on of ways to rectify New Zealand's accelerating slither down the slippery OECD slope!Grilled on National Radio this morning by Geoff Robinson, with Bill English in the studio ready to pounce, Hodgson was asked "We... >> more

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