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by Sarah Putt, IITP Comms and Policy Lead
The relevance of the traditional landline is up for debate in a major review of the Telecommunications Service Obligation (TSO). Previously the phone service was considered so important that Telecom had to charge rural households the same for local calling as those living in city areas, despite the voice service being more expensive to deliver to remote areas.
But is a fixed line voice service a fundamental necessity or is it more important that households have access to decent broadband? Newsline investigates, and talks Spy Bill.
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by Peter Kerr, Technology writer
Peter Kerr has a special interest in science and technology and keeps a close eye on what's happening with the newly formed Callaghan Innovation, the government agency with a $240 million a year budget that was formed from Industrial Research Ltd and MBIE’s business grants division.
In this week's Newsline he asks whether we yet have an overarching strategy for Science, Engineering, Technology and Design in New Zealand in light of Callaghan Innovation's Statement of Intent that was released last month.
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by ictevents.co.nz
Kiwi PyCon is an annual conference aimed at promoting and educating people about the Python programming language. The New Zealand Python User Group is proud to present the fifth national Python conference in New Zealand, 6-8th September at the newly opened Sir Paul Reeves Building at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
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