Soapbox

With things at Deepweb surging ahead, this blog has sadly been a little neglected. However, it is time for that to stop and some new posts to come your way. I will be talking about the latest news in the land of broadband in New Zealand, as well as some interesting search engine news and […]

Well, Telecom increased speeds and reduuced prices on a number of plans from the 1st of April. Surfing the net seems quicker, but as a web designer, the upload speed is still the same 128kbps and can take ages to FTP or upload a site onto the net. The powers that be are trying to

As predicted, WIMAX looks to be a serious challenger to the current national carrier. The latest reports are about regional companies trialling the WIMAX technology joining forces to cerate a nationwide WIMAX network. If they can all agree on interconnect agreements, then this could be a major step in the right direction. Meanwhile, Telecom has

Hello to you all in 2006, What will the new year bring us in the world of the internet? Will Telecom be reigned in by the NZ Commerce Commission? I think there will be some action, but I also think there will be challenges by Telecom to any significant rulings against them to prolong any

Last night, Telecom reduced it\’s broadband rate by $10 a month. We were paying $69.95 for a 2mb plan with 10gb traffic limit. So this is great news! At last the advent of competition is returning some reward. Telecom is in the news all over the place about it\’s monopoly of the Telecoms arena in