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  • Telecom NZ, govt 'discussing separation'

    NZ Opposition Labour MP Clare Curran says she has it on good authority that Communications Minister Steven Joyce met Telecom NZ CEO Paul Reynolds last week and discussed the possibility of the incumbent structurally separating its business.

  • Telecom NZ rejects govt phone proposal

    Telecom New Zealand has hit out at changes proposed by the NZ Government at the way phone services to uneconomic customers are funded under the telecommunications service obligations (TSO).

  • New Zealand Govt CIO resigns

    New Zealand Government chief information officer and deputy State Services commissioner Dr Laurence Millar has resigned following criticism of his handling of Government Shared Network consulting contracts worth NZ$7.5 million.

  • NZ Govt flags shared services move

    The New Zealand government has flagged a major shift towards technology shared services within the state sector.

  • TelstraClear exits NZ copyright talks

    TelstraClear has effectively killed plans for an industry code between New Zealand ISPs and copyright holders to sit under the controversial S92 copyright legislation amendment.

Blogs (17)

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    G2009: Microsoft needs to regain trust

    We've got our own open source versus Microsoft stoush going on in New Zealand, with the government as a key player.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    The pendulum of shared services

    Spend enough time in the IT industry and you'll soon realise that many of the new trends we see are cyclical: fat vs. thin clients; various development methodologies falling in and out of fashion; and shared vs. distributed services.

  • Read the blog post - Darren Greenwood

    Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?

    One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    Silence of the IBM

    Having one of your biggest customers roast you in the media as "slow to react to a catastrophic systems failure" and "unwilling to apologise" for it is not a good look for IBM New Zealand.

  • Read the blog post - Juha Saarinen

    S92 redux: It's back

    Termination of file-sharing internet users' accounts is coming up for New Zealanders again.

Features and Case Studies (79)

  • Joyce: NZ's new broadband man

    New Zealand's new Communications Minister Stephen Joyce has the gargantuan task of dragging New Zealand into the next broadband age, a labour which will take 10 years.

  • Backup headaches eased at Genesis Energy

    On any list of businesses that can't afford downtime or system failure, power companies have to be close to the top. So when New Zealand electricity and gas generator and retailer Genesis Energy experienced a series of flaws in its backup and recovery systems, it had to act.

  • Striving for mediocrity

    Iif the latest NBN scenario planning is right, David Thodey will have to accept that even an optimal outcome for both Telstra and the government will not deliver dramatic returns for Telstra's one million shareholders.

  • Telstra should plan for separation

    If Telstra is serious about engaging with the Federal Government over the National Broadband Network it should immediately start the work needed to break itself in two.

  • CenITex needs to be governed for success

    Victoria appears set to leap into a new phase of government ICT with the creation of shared technology services agency CenITex, but challenges remain.

Videos (1)

  • CeBIT: NZ CIO on Web 2.0

    New Zealand government CIO Laurence Millar has cautioned Australian counterparts about rushing to embrace Web 2.0 technologies, citing concerns over content quality and public attacks.

Reviews (7)

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