Tag Archives: Broadband in NZ

April 4, 2008 Posted in Economic Development, IT, Society 2 Comments

More on the broadband debate…

By Ben Kepes

First a disclaimer – I’m no engineer, I use broadband (of course) but I don’t profess to understand all the arguments in depth – copper vs fibre vs mobile doesn’t concern me hugely – connectivity is the metric that rocks my world… I’m also not an economist – I use

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March 13, 2008 Posted in Business 7 Comments

This one’s straight from the “what the..” category

By The Unreasonablemen

From computerworld this morning Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds has joined the board of XConnect Global Networks, which provides VoIP and IP-based services From the Xconnect website XConnect’s award winning services enable over 400 VoIP service providers and carriers worldwide to peer with millions of VoIP endpoints. Am I alone

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February 25, 2008 Posted in SaaS Leave a comment

The impact of Scale and Economics on SaaS and broadband

By The Unreasonablemen

NOTE: this is a mirror post of my unreasonablemen.net blog. There have been a few posts recently about broadband in NZ, some well thought through, others not so. The crux of this issue is about scale & economics. This of course is massively applicable to SaaS too. So in the

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.