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  • Labour NZ appeals to Telecom's conscience

    Several senior members of New Zealand's Labour opposition party have published an extraordinary public letter to Telecom New Zealand, asking the telco to re-examine the terms of a controversial contract that is causing widespread unionised industrial action.

  • NZ kills copyright amendment

    New Zealand's controversial amendment to its Copyright Act, known as Section 92A, will be scrapped in its current form, NZ Commerce Minister Simon Power announced today.

  • 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.

  • New Zealand delays copyright amendment

    In the wake of widespread online and physical protests at impending copyright legislation, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has announced a month's delay in the rules to give the industry time to come up with a workable solution.

  • NZ telco report rejects $1.5bn NBN

    The New Zealand government's plan to spend $1.5 billion subsidising fibre-to-the-home broadband is not an effective use of public money, according to a report commissioned by major New Zealand broadband providers Telecom NZ, Vodafone and TelstraClear.

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  • 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.

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