Bill Bennett - New Zealand telecoms and technology news
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How the 2degrees-Vocus merger affected competition
网页23 小时之前 · Broadband competition. Fixed broadband is more competitive. In 2022, prices for most users, but not high end users, were higher in New Zealand than in other OECD countries. Entry level plans here cost $65 a month, with the OECD average being $53. High end plans at $73 were significantly lower than the OECD average of $111.
What is this site about and who is Bill Bennett?
网页Bill Bennett is a freelance New Zealand technology and business journalist. He started writing about technology in 1980 as staff writer on Practical Computing magazine. He left the UK in 1987 to work in Wellington on The Dominion as Computer Page editor. He spent a decade working in Sydney, Australia. There he was managing editor of two ...
New Zealand falls behind 5G availability pack - Bill Bennett
网页ComCom sets out expectations on surcharges. An open letter from the Commerce Commission calls on businesses to be more reasonable about surcharges.. John Small, who chairs the Commerce Commission says: “…our intent is not to promote or discourage surcharging but to focus on ensuring that where merchants do surcharge, that they do so at no more than the cost of accepting the payment.”
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 - luxury folding phone - Bill Bennett
网页Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold2 is good enough to be the breakthrough taking folding phones in the mainstream. Or at least it would be if not for the NZ$3500 asking price.
New Zealand got lucky twice with fast broadband - Bill Bennett
网页Most New Zealanders have world class broadband. Our UFB network proved its worth again since the Covid–19 forced large numbers to work from home.
Starlink fills gaps but doesn’t fix NZ rural coverage - Bill Bennett
网页Starlink’s business class dish costs a whopping NZ$4,374.80 up front. Plans start at NZ$426 a month for a terabyte of data, a six terabyte plan costs NZ$2507 a month. This is more than 20 times what a user would pay for a fibre connection with the same performance.
Extending New Zealand's fibre network - Bill Bennett
网页2019年11月28日 · The UFB1 fibre network reaches three quarters of New Zealand. UFB2 will stretch that to around 87 per cent. We can take fibre further, but that needs taxpayer money. A lot of it. When New Zealand built its copper telephone network, government saw it as a nation-building exercise. Copper phone wires reached almost everywhere.
NZ broadband faces competitive reset - Bill Bennett
网页Low Earth orbit satellites, 5G and a fibre speed bump are set to reboot New Zealand broadband competition.. It’s a decade since the first customers connected to Ultrafast broadband. At that time fibre looked the likely Kiwi broadband future.
NZ Tech Podcast discusses school phone ban - Bill Bennett
网页2023年8月9日 · This week on the NZ Tech Podcast Paul Spain and I discuss UNESCO's call to ban phones in school classrooms just hours before New Zealand's main opposition National Party announced it plans to impose similar rules if it wins this year's election. See Momentum building for school phone bans for more on what is happening elsewhere in the world.. The discussion links to a plan by the Cyberspace ...