News Roundup

• Computerworld has a peice on Kordia’s submission. See Kordia warns of broadband risks (4 May 2009).
• According to Stuff, Vodafone is making a behind-the-scenes push to persuade the Government to establish a national consortium that would own telecommunications infrastructure. See Vodafone has ‘private plan’ (4 May 2009).
• REANNZ couldn’t find a suitable proposal from a potential supplier, so pulled the plug on its $15 million contribution towards a new submarine cable link. See Plug pulled on second Tasman cable (7 May 2009).
• Article at Stuff about financing the regional fibre companies, based largely on the submissions. See Debt a concern in fibre roll-out (8 May 2009).
• Some more on the failure to get a new Tasman cable underway. See Cable plan failure disappoints industry (10 May 2009).
• TUANZ blog post on Steven Joyce’s keynote at Telecommunications Day. See Joyce gives nod to fibre submissions (12 May 2009). The Minister is apparently saying LFCs will be allowed to wholesale layer 2 services now. But LFCs were already allowed to do this in the existing proposal. This is simply not enough, for residential users this must be mandatory.