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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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UFB service levels and critical response
UFB Service Levels Last week Ultra Fast Fibre, the UFB carrier for Hamilton, Tauranga and several other central North Island towns/cities, announced that they would
Boost VDSL to be phased out
Effective 14 November 2018, Chorus will be grandfathering Boost VDSL. Boost VDSL will also be withdrawn from their suite of products one year from today,
Phasing in digital agreements
If you have been a client of Lightwire for some time you will be used to the process of receiving a PDF agreement, needing to
Vodafone/Vocus announce unbundled fibre partnership
Vodafone and Vocus held a joint press conference yesterday to announce that they are going to partner on plans to unbundle UFB fibre. Given unbundled
Using Air New Zealand’s in-flight Wi-Fi
Air New Zealand recently announced the price for its in-flight Wi-Fi service, with $40 being the flat fee they settled on… until they dropped it
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