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National one year on: Beware the backlash of frustrated commuters
Hamilton :: New Zealand | 23 days ago
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The seasoned National Party campaign chief but newbie list MP catapulted into John Key's Cabinet had watched Auckland's $300 million Northern Busway being built beside him on congested motorway trips to and from his Albany lifestyle block, and was keen...
Tags: rural broadband
Govt plans to phase out controversial Telecom levy
Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 months ago
Credibility Steven Joyce, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, yesterday released proposals to phase out the Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO) levy and set up a new $300 million rural broadband initiative. The TSO levy was originally...
Tags: Local Service TSO, Telecommunications Service Obligations, rural broadband, Telecommunications Users’ Association, Telecommunications Development Levy, Steven Joyce, tso levy, Communications and Information Technology, discussion documents, industry levy
Govt wants $300m for rural broadband (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | 2 months ago
Credibility The Government says $300 million needs to be spent getting rural New Zealanders connected. It wants 25 percent of those living in rural areas to have access to broadband soon, Communications Minister Steven Joyce announced today. He said the $300m would...
Tags: rural broadband, Hon Steven Joyce, broadband coverage, broadband roll
John Key talks up rural broadband
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
Credibility The Government will pour more money into rural broadband after Prime Minister John Key criticised its existing policy in a television interview, Communications Minister Steven Joyce has confirmed. Mr Joyce announced at the Budget in May that it would...
Tags: rural broadband
Broadcasting & Cable: Openness, Video Access, Important To Rural Broadband
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps has released the FCC's rural broadband report, telling Congress that adopting a fifth principle of network nondiscrimination should be part of a rural broadband plan, and that lack of access to video programming could...
Tags: rural broadband, FCC
We Need Broadband rural mapping helps attract stimulus
Dial-up friendly site designed to accelerate network deployment and access to stimulus dollars Residents and businesses in communities under-served by broadband Internet access can now demonstrate their demand to the federal government by visiting...
Tags: broadband, RidgeviewTel, stimulus, network deployment, dial-up, rural broadband
Rural Communities Know their Broadband Needs Best
Residents of Omaha in southern Illinois wanted broadband access for years but could not attract a provider to their region. Two years later, the community views itself as a shining example of a successful broadband deployment and encourages other rural...
Tags: broadband, stimulus, rural, omaha, RidgeviewTel, network, mapping, internet, rural broadband
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