Vodafone ramps up termination stakes
Vodafone has added fuel to the fire over Mobile Termination Rates.
Techie Isles
Darren Greenwood keeps his feet on New Zealand's shaky ground and his head up in the long white cloud.
Darren Greenwood
Darren Greenwood has been in journalism, not all of it IT, since the days of typewriters and long before the web spun its way around the world. Coming from Yorkshire, he can be blunt, and though having resided in New Zealand, as well as Australia, for quite some time, he insists he is not one of the 'sheeple!'
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Call me an old cynic if you wish, but one of the things I have been told about any scandal is to "follow the money".
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Cheap trumps ugly with overhead fibre
When your country has to borrow $250 million a week to balance the books, can you afford the luxury of burying all your ultrafast broadband cabling underground?
NZ govt needs mobile pricing balls
Even though I like to argue against the consensus, after weighing up the points for and against regulation of mobile termination rates (MTRs), I am for once on the side of those demanding regulation.
Look before you sign
What rights should your current employer have to stop you moving on to another one?
Keeping one eye open on cloud
Like Australia, New Zealand has just witnessed a land grab where every man and his dog with a server and internet connection is suddenly in the business of cloud computing, with as many pitfalls being created as services.
Grab your spears Oz! NZ is with you
I wish to thank the Australian Human Rights Commission and I bet Joseph Evers does too!
Filter perfect for conspiracy theories
No wonder people get suspicious of governments monitoring the internet and develop all kinds of conspiracy theories. Just look at how secretively the New Zealand Government has behaved with its planned filter to block child porn.
Time to salute tech success
It was heartening to see technology producing its fair share of the wealthy on Forbes most recent rich list.