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@JasonCParis @onenzofficial Counting at least 9 One NZ towers in the Hawkes Bay that disappeared when the power went off. Time to buy some new batteries?

Automatic generators and battery back ups are in place for ⁩mobile towers that have been impacted by this outage. Should this be a longer power outage than expected, we will outline how our new ⁦@onenzofficial⁩ satellite TXT service can help nzherald.co.nz/nz/huge-outage…

@stevebiddle Ok, so only indirect routes where a direct route was also available were discounted and now they aren’t?

@jessearcher Nope.

New from me today. Air NZ quietly increases some regional airfares by 50% traveltalk.nz/news-opinion/a…

@ChrisKeall Spark’s tower sale never made sense to me—except that execs likely scored big bonuses that year. Instead of investing in infrastructure or high-return services, shareholders got a payout, and now the company is stuck with debt and higher costs. Short-term gain, long-term pain.

I was interviewed for this piece, 16mins in. Fighting the good fight for local radio and news

@DylanReeve Who’s your ISP? ISPs with good caching and peering with Netflix had zero problem.

@actparty @myfullflavour As a consequence, rural folk are missing out on improved internet services from local local provider.

@actparty Except there is a ton of stuff not getting done. For example our business @myfullflavour a rural broadband provider is waiting for more 3Ghz spectrum from MBIE/RSM but we are being told MBIE/RSM no longer has the policy resources to get this done for us.

Labour spent billions hiring additional public servants – and outcomes got worse. There's still more work to be done but we're turning the tide on wasteful spending.

@actparty Top of my list - sell Kordia. It’s supposed to be a commercial business but behaves like a bureaucratic government department.

It’s a good time for the government to do a capital review. For each thing that it owns, a taxpayer is entitled to ask, what does this do? Also, does it need to be done? Could or would someone else do it if the government didn’t do it? Is this asset helping economic growth, so the government can earn more in the future? act.org.nz/the_mystery_of…

@levelsio No one who can get fibre (over 80% of New Zealand population) is signing up to Starlink

Starlink is now doubling in subscribers every year At this rate it will become the #1 ISP in the US by 2028 Passing by Comcast Infinity with 32M subscribers And potentially becoming the #1 ISP worldwide a few years later

@stevebiddle No “Passenger Service Charge (International)” each way on the Hamilton flights, whatever that is.

@jessearcher Impossible to know. As an airport they have the same major costs as every other NZ airport which is Avsec security costs, govt passenger movement charges etc. There is very little difference between the airports

Stories like this just show how little many journalists understand about aviation. When it's now $300 in taxes and fees alone to fly return to Australia before the airline gets a single cent there are going to be very few wins for consumers. nzherald.co.nz/business/more-…

@stevebiddle Clearly not charging much for taxes?

@jessearcher Nope. I don't understand the JQ taxes on that screen they make no sense, and with no proper descriptions (the codes) it is impossible to know what they are charging for.

@stevebiddle Right so this is a Wellington Airport problem vs Hamilton Airport?

@jessearcher $296 for WLG-SYD, $294 for WLG-BNE

@HamishOnline @FlyAirNZ Give Sunair or Air Napier a go?

Come on @FlyAirNZ …. fly most weeks with you and am starting to tire of your cancelled flights due to ‘engineering problems’. Intrigued that you are always able to fit passengers on subsequent flights that aren’t full 🤔 Engineering probs typically disappear with competition🤔

@stubarea51 Still way to go before exiting beta - ran into an error just trying to L2 connect to a device on MacOS version.

#MikroTik did an amazing job with Winbox 4 and it's not even out of beta yet. I'm not sure there is another network platform that supports advanced routing/switching for OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS, etc w/ a UI/UX this clean.

@DylanReeve Track 29 is very Disney

@MariaSherwood2 @Breakfaston1 That idea of Rotorua doctors commuting to Taupo is going down like a ton of bricks, I assure you! I’d expect the doctors walk before that idea got off the ground.

Reti on @Breakfaston1 talking about hospital shortages, especially sending doctors from Rotorua to Taupo. There are shortages in both. He's looking smug. He's worked in rural hospitals, he knows the problem. He says sharing resources across the regions is a good thing.

@stubarea51 Does this fix VPLS single core issues on arm devices ?

7.15 stable released 💙