A full-on price war - or at least a data cap war - has broken out between ISPs.
6:41PM Monday 21 May 2012
Homebroadband
- World Internet Project survey finds 86% of New Zealanders online
- NZ high on OECD wireless broadband league table
- Ultra Fast Broadband underway in Christchurch
- Vodafone begins its rural roll out
- Broadband, international calls cheaper - inflation wonks
- ASB man recruited to steer 70% of Crown Fibre roll-out
- Big numbers using mobile internet, jump in landline data caps - Stats NZ
- Paid content TelstraClear shoots for cable comeback
- Paid content Without a word of a lie Major issues with broadband open access undertakings - InternetNZ
- Free wi-fi for Auckland during RWC - but free services banned in stadiums
- Vodafone and Telecom resolve network outages
- InternetNZ paper asks why NZ has data caps
- Slingshot re-launches All You Can Eat data plan
- NZ broadband better than Australia - Akamai
- Telecom to double data for some residential customers
- NZ broadband getting faster, but overseas links still miserable
- Orcon launches broadband-only Genius phone
- Slow international connectivity not our fault - TelstraClear
- Archived Print Edition The brave new world of Crown fibre: The winners, the losers, what it will cost and when you will get it
- Telecom free to set charges for boosted broadband service
- Suburbs edge downtown for web browsing speed – ComCom
- Kiwis surfing international sites much faster - commission
- Broadband in more than one million homes
- $180m in Telecom fees at stake as ComCom told to redo its sums
- ComCom presses on with Vodafone coverage claims prosecution
- Paid content Millions sought for local broadband
- Study: number of Kiwis accessing web via cellphone doubles
- English doesn’t budge on $1.5 billion for broadband
- Crown fibre shortlist 'within a month'
- Two Crown fibre bidders shoot for whole country
- Regional Fibre Group ready for roll-out
- Telecom makes left-field bid for $1.5b govt broadband
- Faster fibre network on the cards for Southland
- More than 90% of rural schools to get 100Mbps broadband
- One law for all on broadband, officials tell MPs
- More than one million Kiwis to miss out on broadband
- Break it, and they will come: broadband subscribers top 1 million
- Government invites co-investment on broadband initiative
- Paid content How Telecom's new logo could expand the business in Australia
- ComCom begins investigation into Telecom loyalty offer
Business
- Market close: NZ shares fall as earnings loom, FPA dips
- Kiwi sell-off ends as G8 backs growth shift for Europe
- No boobs on show for quake city SOOBS
- Auckland business confidence takes a dive
- Settlement close in Affco/meat union dispute
- Paid content Chch council should sell Lyttelton port - economist
- Tyndall taps Goldman Sachs as global fixed income manager
- 'Introspective' NZ has shades of Muldoon - MFAT adviser
- TMA Group emerges as PMP bidder, shares rise
- Paid content Auditor-general investigates govt department over quake rebuild contract
Property
- Paid content Strategic directors nab Auckland heritage CBD building
- NBR ONLINE Top Properties
- Paid content GHD's $25m move won't ease Auckland office woes
- Luxury Queenstown home sells for $7m
- Paid content Auckland mustn't make same mistakes - top realtor
- Paid content Council red-tape slasher proud of her team's work
- Paid content Sell city assets to help rebuild - Christchurch chamber
- Paid content New stadium: an albatross or a stunning asset?
- Kiwi Income Property Trust back in the black
- Paid content Waterfront tavern for sale after bitter local feud
Banking and Finance
- Paid content MasterCard NZ boss sees us ahead in some mobile payment areas - but behind in others
- Paid content Super Fund has nearly $500m exposure to EU banks
- ASB trust stumps up for $35m waterfront theatre
- Banker 'Moose' Tyler to head super funds
- Kiwi hits five-month low as ECB halts bank loans
- ANZ Bank investing $A300m to expand China network
- Big bank home loan rate cuts continue
- Paid content ON THE MONEY: Markets will spin when Twist ends
- Paid content Conservative business customers getting ready for upturn - BNZ
- BNZ first-half cash earnings up 36% on wider margins
Technology
- Telecom first with Galaxy S III pricing, pre-orders
- Google NZ posts another loss - and makes another tiny NZ tax contribution
- Quickflix NZ releases movie streaming app for iPhone, iPad; makes Android promise
- More possible flak for Sky TV as watchdog releases barriers to broadband uptake report
- Finally, Zuckerberg puts on a suit (PHOTO!)
- ACC boss: more privacy breaches will happen
- NextWindow's Canadian owner sees its shares crash 25% in a day
- A scandalous waste of business money
- Morgan Stanley forced to step in and prop up Facebook float
- Telecom admits some email problems continue from Tuesday glitch; addresses compo
Law and Courts
- Paid content Defamation a double-edge sword
- Former government advisor duped by fraudster Stevens
- Bridgecorp director Rob Roest gets six and a half years
- Paid content Defamation case exposes rifts between govt agencies
- Paid content Lawyer Barry Hart owes bank more than $30m
- Paid content Barry Hart's High Court fight over mortgagee sale
- Paid content Nathans' chairman Moses jail-free next month
- Lawyer denies leading witness in fraud trial
- Paid content Insolvency practitioners fight own bankruptcy battle
- Paid content Donna Hall makes last-minute appeal against disciplinary finding
Ad/Media
- NZ On Air releases original proposal for documentary that morphed into reality show The GC
- Celebs join 'sexual preference' equality campaign
- Coffey mornings for Saturday breakfast
- OgilvyAction takes the biscuit
- Paid content Tawdry TV show turns on viewers and tops TV3 ratings
- Paid content Fur flies over taxpayer-funded 'sexploitation' of women on TV
- Watchdog clears Sky TV-TVNZ igloo joint venture - but opens ISP partnership investigation
- Paid content Advertisers 'turned off' by poor quality NZ Herald journalism
- PR not just for corporates, says PRINZ winner
- Sky strikes back
Politics
- NZ POLITICS DAILY: Too much debt, or not enough work to go around?
- 'Introspective' NZ has shades of Muldoon - MFAT adviser
- Paid content Auditor-general investigates govt department over quake rebuild contract
- Paid content Should the government sell the $20b Cullen fund? - NBR readers' verdict
- Carter supports council asset sales to cap rates
- ACC boss: more privacy breaches will happen
- Police paid more than teachers because life on the line - Parata
- 100,000 generations - and then this guy
- Greens eagerly eye finance portfolio
- OK, so we get a budget surplus in 2015. Then what?