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Teams Calling Playbook
Teams Calling playbook This isn’t a sales doc and you won’t find much in the way of pricing or sales pitches. However, you’ll learn what
The 3CX Playbook
The Playbook your team needs to scope, design, sell, provision, and support self hosted 3CX.
Teams Calling Webinar
Teams Calling Webinar Get to know Teams Calling and learn if it’s something for you and your organisation (or not) in this informal no obligations
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The less tangible cost of Vocus NZ
In purchasing the NZ assets of the Vocus Group, the “lucky” buyer will not be purchasing a single entity, but rather a disconnected group of
UFB unbundling now less likely post 2020
The parliamentary committee reviewing the Telecommunications Amendment Bill has released an 80 page report, and the lack of major changes within it leaves UFB unbundling
Chorus finally making UFB qualification easier
Since the advent of UFB in 2011, I have been bemoaning the lack of an elegant way to extract service availability detail from Chorus. There
Has Chorus broken the law?
Chorus may have broken the law, or at least proved that they can beat it. Nielsen’s Law that is. This law states that the bandwidth
Smaller telcos gaining market share
In late 2017 the Commerce Commission, New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency released its Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report for the period July 2016 to
Spark buys Digital Island
As widely reported last week, Spark has signed an agreement to buy all shares in the Auckland based telco Digital Island. In my 11 years
New managed router base model for Lightwire
Fortigate recently issued a new product matrix for 2017, and it had an interesting update to the 2016 version. Our base model router has until
Tail extensions and shrinking networks
There is a sneaky rumour doing the rounds that Ultra-Fast Fibre is readying itself to follow in the footsteps of Chorus and introduce tail extensions
Fibre to 190 additional NZ towns with UFB2+
Last week, New Zealand’s Communications Ministers, Simon Bridges, announced “UFB2+”, $130 million in additional funding to expand the UFB rollout into towns not previously in
Is price less important to rural internet users?
At this year’s Fieldays (the Southern hemisphere’s largest agricultural event) we took the opportunity to talk to our customers about their rural internet experience. We
Do regulatory changes to copper services matter?
Simon Bridges, NZ Minster for Communications, recently announced changes to the way copper services will be regulated from 2020. Key points in this release were:
Fixed wireless vs 4G in the NZ market
The aim of this post is to compare the basic features and benefits of 4G and fixed wireless in the context of the NZ rural
