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New Zealand Radiocommunications Map
The map below plots 19,750 radiocommunications licenses across New Zealand in VHF and UHF bands. These licenses support voice and/or data communications from individual towers to multiple end users....
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700MHz and The Digital Dividend
As the process to release Digital Dividend radio spectrum kicks off, media outlets have started covering the issue with enthusiasm. Computerworld, The Dominion Post, NBR, and TUANZ have all featured...
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Digital Dividend Discussion Submission
In August of 2011, New Zealand’s Ministry of Economic Development Radio Spectrum Management group published a discussion paper entitled “Digital Dividend – Opportunities for New Zealand”. The Digital...
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Vodafone’s RBI Fixed Wireless Service
The first five of 154 new rural cellular towers funded by the Ministry of Economic Development’s Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) and built by Vodafone NZ were officially activated yesterday, as...
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What’s going on with Vodafone’s 2.5GHz spectrum?
The 2.3 and 2.5-2.6GHz bands were auctioned by the MED in late 2007, and were originally intended for WiMAX and cellular expansion. The table below shows the auction results and likely technology...
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Vodafone & CallPlus Swap Spectrum for LTE
Vodafone and Blue Reach, the wireless subsidiary of CallPlus, have traded blocks of spectrum in the 2.5GHz spectrum band. The trade will allow both carriers to operate Long Term Evolution (LTE)...
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LTE as Fibre Killer? Vodafone’s Quick Win for Fixed Mobile Substitution
Fixed Mobile Substitution (FMS) is the concept of replacing fixed telecommunications lines with mobile technologies. In New Zealand the number of fixed lines in use has remained steady from 2006-2011....
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NZ Radio Spectrum Landscape 2013
2012 brought significant change to New Zealand’s spectrum landscape in the form of multiple transactions involving radio spectrum management rights. First, Vodafone and CallPlus entered in to a...
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Sending Party Pays for Bridging the Digital Divide
While many New Zealanders are considering the jump from copper to fibre broadband, many more aren’t considering either. It’s not that they don’t want broadband for themselves or their children, it’s...
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Cell Phones, Wi-Fi, and Electromagnetic Radiation
All radio devices like cellphones, radios, televisions, and Wi-Fi devices communicate via electromagnetic radiation. These man-made devices are not the only source of such radiation – the Earth’s...
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