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Locking handsets - why it's wrong
Posted Tue 13 December 2011 @ 8:59 a.m. by Paul Brislen
SIM locking has reared its ugly head again, with Telecom’s offshoot Skinny proposing to lock handsets to the XT network for a period of nine months.TUANZ is opposed to such things as they’re a barrier to customers moving freely between networks and we already have enough of those thank you.But someone on Twitter argued that... >> more
Categories: Regulatory | Wireless carriers
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An Open Letter to the incoming Minister
Posted Mon 5 December 2011 @ 3:10 p.m. by Paul Brislen
Dear Minister.
Hi,
We may or may not have met so I’ll give you a bit of a background. TUANZ is the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand and we’ve been badgering your predecessors for 25 years now.
We were set up in 1986 by a bunch of business customers who were sick of going out to tender for... >> more
Categories: Broadband | Education | Fixed line carriers | Innovation | ISPs | Regulatory | Vendors | Wireless carriers
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Guest Blog
Posted Thu 24 November 2011 @ 11:56 a.m. by Clare Curran
Thinking outside the sqaure - A guest blog from Clare Curran, Labour MP. It’s not rocket science that New Zealand needs a new economic development strategy for our country to forge its way into the future. Technology, using our brains and being innovative must be at the core of it. And it would be a good idea if we... >> more
Categories: Broadband | Fixed line carriers | ISPs | Regulatory | Wireless carriers