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Saturday, 17 April 2021, 1:43 pm If you think you need a 5G handset, the $400 Redmi Note 9T from Xiaomi is the cheapest option. Xiaomi gives you a lot of phone for $400. You could pay double and end up with something that does nothing more than the Redmi Note 9T. One paper the phone isn’t promising. It doesn’t look great, it doesn’t feel great and it’s not exciting. The camera is not special. There’s nothing spectacular to see here. No-one would aspire to own a Redmi Note. Yet there’s nothing wrong either. The phone is far better than a simple ....
Second, average download speeds for fixed wireless networks were down 25 percent. Third, there’s a clear problem with retail telecommunications revenue. This has implications for investment in new networks and technology upgrades. We’ll look more closely at all three points later. Before that, here are a few highlights from the report. More data, faster data Broadband use jumped ahead in the year to June 2020. The monitoring report notes the average New Zealand broadband user chewed through 284GB every month. That’s up 37 percent from the 207GB used monthly a year earlier. That should surprise no-one. This time last year ....
Early in 2020 much of the world went into lockdown. Companies sent workers home to work. Schools sent students home to study. As a response, there was a surge in technology adoption. Often, people, companies and organisations tried, for the first time, technologies they had not used before. In others, rarely-used technologies moved centre stage. Video-conferencing, online shopping and streaming were among the technologies where adoption leapt forward. Cloud and collaboration surged. All became mainstream overnight. And those that were popular before lockdown reached the more reluctant users. That’s a group technology companies can overlook. Vaulted five years, ten years ....
Spotlight on Fibre Max performance Ever since the UK-based SamKnows began monitoring broadband there has been an issue with Fibre Max performance. Customers see a wide range of speeds. In cases the speed was close to half the nominal gigabit per second. At times it was even lower - see the chart. It was noticeable that performance was worse in the South Island than in the North Island. Hence the uneasiness with calling plans ‘gigabit’ fibre. In December the Commerce Commission set up a working party to investigate the problems with Fibre Max. There was more than one issue to ....
Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 11:48 am For much of last year the word on the street was that PC sales were running hot. Brands and stores reported shortages of certain models as the pandemic bit and New Zealanders were sent home to work or study online. The biggest demand was for notebooks. Sales were up 21.7 percent on the year earlier. Desktop PC sales were down 15.1 percent year-on-year. Commercial PC shipments were up 18.3 percent, consumer PC sales climbed 5.2 percent. These figures are broadly in-line with worldwide trends. Global PC shipments were up 13 percent. HP top, Acer second Back to New Zealand where IDC says HP was in top spot with Acer in ....