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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 in this informal, no obligations on-demand webinar. Watch Webinar What’s this webinar about? After watching the Teams
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Why did we move 3CX services to AWS?
Since early 2017 Lightwire has been hosting 3CX instances on our geographically distributed servers, our private cloud if you will. We have been running with
Which UFB fibre connection is right for me and my customers?
Let’s face it, everyone wants the fastest fibre for the lowest price and expect it to never have any issues. But that’s not the world we live in. If you’re looking at Ulta Fast Broadband (UFB)
Let’s talk about offshoring
A couple of things have piqued my interest in offshoring this week, the first being that Fonterra is going to ditch Datacom in favour of
Planting project update
Each month I post social media content about how many trees/plants Lightwire has planted, but this month I wanted to actually show some clear examples
Chorus releases Small Business Fibre product
Chorus is adding new layer 2 services and dropping existing layer 2 service prices (and we are passing them on in full). In this video
Chorus PONFAS Pricing Released
Chorus today released its pricing draft for PONFAS, the unbundled fibre service due for release in 2020. The price points were confirmation of the strategy
First NZ customer live on unbundled fibre
Vodafone and Vocus were busy yesterday announcing the news that their first trial customer was live on unbundled fibre. Plenty of claims were made, and
Local Fibre Companies follow path set by Chorus
Just before Christmas the Local Fibre Companies (LFCs) contracted to the Crown to roll out UFB to 30% of NZ, including major centres such as
Chorus news and implications for unbundled fibre
Last week Chorus announced changes to the pricing of two of its most popular service variants. The table below details the price points and timelines
Chorus unbundled fibre design
Unbundled fibre is coming, by 2020 it will be available for use by retail service providers. What that means for end users is uncertain, in
Spark is in more places than you think
When most consumers think of Spark brands, I assume they would think of the home and business offerings of Spark and Spark Digital, but through
AusNOG 2018 presentation – NZ UFB post 2020
At this years Australian Network Operators Group conference there was a record number of attendees with almost 300 people taking part. Of those 300, probably