Bill Bennett - New Zealand telecoms and technology news
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Spark top for reliability in Opensignal report
网页3 天之前 · Spark takes top spot in the category with a score of 853 points on a scale running from 100 to 1000. One NZ and 2degrees are both in second place. Opensignal says the Reliability Experience score: “Measures how much consumers can depend on their mobile operator’s network.”. For comparison, earlier this year the analyst company says ...
What is this site about and who is Bill Bennett?
网页Bill Bennett is a freelance New Zealand technology and business journalist. He started writing about technology in 1980 as staff writer on Practical Computing magazine. He left the UK in 1987 to work in Wellington on The Dominion as Computer Page editor. He spent a decade working in Sydney, Australia. There he was managing editor of two ...
How AI changes New Zealand work, jobs - Bill Bennett
网页In the face of an uncertain future, New Zealand must discourage over-specialisation in education. Education and training at all levels must equip young New Zealanders with a broad array of the skills and expertise required for an AI driven world. 1. This is vital. Too often we hear our economy needs STEM education and that’s the end of the story.
Understanding the cost of New Zealand broadband - Bill Bennett
网页2024年6月17日 · The press release says the average cost of a broadband connection in New Zealand is US$48.60 (for the rest of this story all prices are in US dollars). This compares with $2.40 for an average plan in Sudan. The most expensive is the Solomon Islands where a plan will set you back $457.84. New Zealand is fractionally cheaper than Australia where ...
Regulator targets mobile coverage maps, no hassle plan exits
网页The Commerce Commission wants mobile operators to make their mobile coverage maps easier to compare. At the same time it wants customers to be able to exit plans without penalty if the coverage at the places most important to them is not up to scratch. Regulators have given carriers a year to standardise their coverage maps.
NZ broadband faces competitive reset - Bill Bennett
网页Low Earth orbit satellites, 5G and a fibre speed bump are set to reboot New Zealand broadband competition.. It’s a decade since the first customers connected to Ultrafast broadband. At that time fibre looked the likely Kiwi broadband future.
Covid's technology Great Leap Forward - Bill Bennett
网页Early in 2020 much of the world went into lockdown. Companies sent workers home to work. Schools sent students home to study. As a response, there was a surge in technology adoption.
NZ phone market grows, bucks worldwide trend - Bill Bennett
网页IDC says New Zealand phone shipments grew 0.9 per cent in 2022 to reach 1.47 million units. That not only bucks the recent local trend of falling sales, but is in stark contrast to the international market which saw worldwide shipments fall 11.3 per cent last year. There’s little room for optimism.
NZ Tech Podcast discusses school phone ban - Bill Bennett
网页2023年8月9日 · This week on the NZ Tech Podcast Paul Spain and I discuss UNESCO's call to ban phones in school classrooms just hours before New Zealand's main opposition National Party announced it plans to impose similar rules if it wins this year's election. See Momentum building for school phone bans for more on what is happening elsewhere in the world.. The discussion links to a plan by the Cyberspace ...