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May 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Snapper and 2Degrees Deliver Convergence–Simply

By Ben Kepes

“Thought Leadership” is a term that is often bandied around, with little regard for what it means. Many in the technology industry equate thought leadership to technological innovation. Personally I’m pretty excited about a type of thought leadership that takes an existing technology but delivers it in a way that

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August 21, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Pacific Fibre Signs Vodafone

By Ben Kepes

Pacific Fibre announced this morning that Vodafone New Zealand had signed up to a 10 year multi-million dollar deal to acquire international bandwidth from the fledgling cable company. With this deal, and the previously announced one with REANNZ, Pacific Fibre should have done enough to get them through to build

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September 14, 2008 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Design, New Zealand 1 Comment

Sometimes you just gotta push people

By Ben Kepes

Awesome to read that Vodafone New Zealand are unilaterally ditching printed invoices. I’d consider myself at least marginally green (not forest-green for sure, more sort of a lime-y shade) but I have to admit I still get printed statement – mostly because it take a bit of effort to go

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August 7, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand 4 Comments

Voda joins the 20th century, and other carrier gossip

By Ben Kepes

It seems Vodafone New Zealand have rolled out their own forums. Thus far there are a few posts – mainly from Voda spin doctor (and really nice guy by the way) Paul Brislen. We should be positive that Voda is creating a forum for discussion – I feel for Paul

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June 16, 2008 Posted in Business, IT, New Zealand, Web x.0 1 Comment

All’s now here to test the hypothesis…

By Ben Kepes

It’s all here – services tailored for mobile delivery, the soon-to-arrive iPhone 3g and now a sensible mobile data offering. With a hat tip to Rod who saw it first it seems that Vodafone is introducing a $1 per day, 10Mb cap plan for mobile data. There is now no

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June 10, 2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand 1 Comment

iPhone 3g in New Zealand – UPDATE

By Ben Kepes

I see over on Rod’s blog the following comment; I went into a Vodafone store today and was told that the iPhone to be released here is NOT the 3G one announced today, but a different “3Gi” one to be announced in a low key manner by Apple next week.

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May 28, 2008 Posted in IT, New Zealand, Strategy Leave a comment

Regulation sometimes a good thing…

By Ben Kepes

A few weeks ago Vodafone New Zealand announced plans to lock cellphones to the Vodafone network. Their plan was to charge customers $50 to unlock phones in the event that they wanted to move to another provider. Telecommunications commissioner Ross Patterson waded in and expressed concern saying that the move

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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.

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