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Communications minister Steven Joyce yesterday annouced a $285 million deal has been finalised to contract Telecom and Vodafone to extend broadband to rural areas. The main points of the deal allow for: – 86 percent of rural houses and businesses access to peak speeds of at least 5Mbps – 154 new cell phone towers and [...]

If the Government’s multibillion dollar plan to deliver high-speed internet access 75 per cent of the population has been a little thin on detail to date, some revelations today point to how the scheme will work in general. Communications minister Steven Joyce has called for submissions on his plan, which allows for a state-owned Crown [...]

There were more than a few surprises in John Key’s cabinet line-up announced yesterday. Dr Wayne Mapp’s appointment to the research, science and technology portfolio was largely unexpected but gels reasonably well with his other associate portfolios of associate economic development and associate tertiary education though Dr Mapp’s key portfolio of defence is likely to [...]