As DTS Managing Director I strive to be ever mindful that without our customers we wouldn’t be here and there’d be no point in what we do. DTS is going from strength to strength in terms of growth and turnover with March and May this year being our best months ever. So I’d like …
Job title madness
Has anyone else come across job title madness lately? It seems we stumble across new, bizarre and bewildering names or acronyms for what people do every day. But what do they all mean and are they all as important as they sound? Okay, I’m a managing director and that makes sense. I manage DTS and …
DTS joins Megaport Fabric
“Megaport’s fabric allows DTS to cost effectively utilise our universal tier 1 access to NZ ultra-fast broadband (UFB) services by opening up access to Australian wholesale demand. Not only that, Megaport extends the reach of our network, they help us cost effectively connect to our Australian wholesale clients plus the elastic nature of the service …
GIGABIT PER SECOND CONNECTIONS?
What speeds can you really expect with your new 1Gbps circuit? Late last year ISPANZ published a paper briefly outlining their position and what performance you are likely to receive. Please have a look at it, I think they’re right. — Steve Ritchie. INTERNER SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND PP 002 Issue 1.0 November …
Chorus still pushing away business
About this time last year we wrote a blog piece about Chorus reviewing its financial security arrangements with retail service providers (RSPs) like DTS, and asking RSPs to pay twice their monthly spend with Chorus as a security. A year on, Chorus is still making this demand. Frankly, it’s ridiculous, and here’s why. It’s hard …
DTS company update
DTS customers and other readers may be aware that our CEO Brendan Ritchie resigned in late November 2016 and has moved on to pursue other interests. As a result, Steve Ritchie and Colin South will be returning to the company full-time and will resume their original roles; Steve as Managing Director and Colin as Technical …
The threats to telco IP voice revenue
Everyone in the IT industry understands (or should) that it is constantly evolving and traditional revenue models are therefore constantly at risk. In this post I look at IP voice, or VOIP, and look at how this segment is changing. As it stands today, a very significant portion of DTS’s revenue is derived from the …
Business demand for #Gignation UFB low
I travelled around NZ last week, meeting with clients and channel partners. At each meeting I tried to gauge the level of interest these businesses have in the new Gbps/500Mbps BS2a UFB service from Chorus, and the answer seems to be, “not much.” The business owners are typically keen to have it at their home, …
Excited about the Chorus #Gignation service? I’m not.
With no additional profit to be made, network changes required, and no current demand driven case to be made for the service being required, I can’t imagine any ISP greeted the news of the new Gbps UFB service from Chorus with any real enthusiasm. For every ISP in NZ, this new service will increase demand …
CommComm and the NZ backhaul review
New Zealand’s Commerce Commission recently announced a study of telecommunications backhaul services, so I am going to throw the little insight I have into the mix. Two actions by Chorus have acted as catalysts to get us to this point: It announced plans to reduce the number of required UFB points of interconnect to 5, …