Kordia™ has signed a Heads of Agreement with the Auckland City Council to deploy a Metro Wi-Fi network throughout the Auckland CBD, main streets and CBD fringe.

This follows a ‘request for information’ issued earlier this year.

Users will be able to log on in any location inside the coverage zone, with free access to the Council’s ‘walled-garden’ featuring a number of related sites. Users will not require a monthly ISP account to do this.

The Telecommunications Amendment Act, on the face of it, promises an environment where new telcos can invest and deliver world class broadband to New Zealanders. Ominously, a press release from Telecom on cabinetisation, due out this Wednesday, may signal a return to the dark days of Telecom holding the keys to the network and to New Zealanders’ entry into the digital world.

Orcon has today voiced its disappointment with Telecom's proposed Naked DSL wholesale product, saying that it is little more than a window-dressing exercise, and as such, they are not able to create a viable commercial product.

Telecom has capped the number of Naked DSL connections - that is broadband connections without paying a phone line rental - that can be delivered for all wholesale customers to just 50 per week, with a maximum of ‘five to ten’ per provider.

Auckland, New Zealand: Kordia™ Group Limited (Kordia™) is about to launch an innovative new service that takes the traditional Wi-Fi hotspot and stretches it over a CBD area – so users can log-on wherever they are, whenever!

Following the joint submission to the Commerce Commission on Telecom's standard terms proposal for local loop unbundling (LLU), telecommunications providers Orcon®, Kordia™ and CallPlus have made a joint submission on the Commerce Commission’s draft Standard Terms Determination for LLU.

Tapping into growing opportunities in the burgeoning Asian market, Kordia™ had a strong presence at the mammoth Communic Asia exhibition in June in Singapore.

Barely a year since the establishment of its joint venture in Thailand, Kordia™ Solutions Thailand has already undertaken 315 site upgrades for DTAC, Thailand’s second largest mobile telecommunications operator with 7,000 sites nationally.

The cellular base station (BTS) capacity upgrade, which includes the installation of equipment cabinets and racks as well as software database modifications, will allow more customers to access the network at the same time.

Food, fashion and free rides couldn’t distract a committed Kordia™ Solutions team from deploying 10 ATMs for Suncorp in Brisbane at the Royal Queensland Show, nicknamed the “Ekka”.

Kordia™’s Queensland field services team undertook the single largest annual deployment for Suncorp lobby ATMs, also one of Kordia™’s largest ATM deployments this year.

Kordia™ has strengthened its rigging expertise, with the establishment of a new dedicated rigging team in Australia to offer end-to-end broadcast and telecommunications solutions to customers. A wider range of tasks can now be performed by Kordia™ so customers can expect a complete suite of engineering services delivered to their doorstep.

Telecommunications and Internet service provider Orcon has successfully unbundled New Zealand’s first customer from the Telecom network. The first trial customers went live on the Orcon Broadband and Telephone network this morning in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby.

Delivering broadband speeds up to 24Mbit/sec – some four to five times faster than the best available from Telecom.  All this comes just three weeks after Telecom granted access to the exchange.