
N4L report shows schools face online threat rise
January 2021Network for Learning’s first data and insights report shows schools faced more than 2,000 online threats a minute when they resumed teaching after ...
Network for Learning’s first data and insights report shows schools faced more than 2,000 online threats a minute when they resumed teaching after ...
The Commerce Commission published the final version of the Copper Withdrawal Code. There is little change from the draft version published in May.
Chief commercial officer, Sophie Moloney, is Sky Network Television Limited’s new chief executive.
More New Zealanders than ever were on the wrong end of phishing, fraud and malware in the three months to September.
Vocus says it intends to float its New Zealand operation on the NZX. The initial public offering could be in the first half of next year, although ...
A better than expected start to the year has seen Sky increase its revenue and profit guidance for 2021.
Earlier this week the Commerce Commission released its final decision about Chorus’ financial losses and costs during the fibre rollout. The decisi...
Starting next month Spark will offer its customers a streaming sports bundle that includes its own content and that of its rival Sky.
Spark remains the largest contributor to the Telecommunications Development Levy. This year the company will pay $3.4 million. That is considerably...
Spark switched on 5G mobile in limited parts of Auckland. This is, in effect, an extension of and opening up of the private 5G network built to sup...
Vodafone’s Farmside unit says it now has 10,000 RBI customers following a surge of sign-ups during the Covid-19 lockdown.
The Commerce Commission has released its final guidance on the obligations of wholesale service providers.
Australia’s federal government is to spend A$3.5 billion upgrading the National Broadband Network. In places NBN will be able to offer UFB-like fib...
Telecommunications Commissioner Tristan Gilbertson has asked mobile operators to give customers the information they need to make better buying dec...
Sky Television reported a net loss of $156.8 million for the 2020 financial year. This included a $178 million goodwill write-down the company says...
Universal Communications Group has built fibre to 123 public transport locations in Auckland. The company says the smart city network will be used ...
A $25 million Covid-19 hit failed to derail Spark. The company met its earnings guidance for the 2020 financial year. Spark saw a 2.5 percent incre...
Vocus New Zealand revenue was up five percent in the 2020 financial year while the Australia telco’s group revenue dropped six percent.
Network for Learning is offering to check schools’ internet in readiness for the exam season. The idea is to give students the best experience and ...
$50 million has been set aside for ‘shovel ready’ rural broadband projects. The investment was announced by infrastructure minister Shane Jones and...
After celebrating the industry’s pandemic performance telco CEOs warned industry returns do not reflect the investments being made in networks and ...
Spark says Palmerston North city centre will be the company’s first full 5G site. It will offer mobile and fixed wireless services there.
Spark says the first stage of its new Optical Transport Network, OTN 2, is live. The link connecting Glenfield and Papakura is now operating at 800...
Spark plans to retire PSTN in Devonport and Miramar by Christmas. The move will affect around 1000 customers.
International mobile infrastructure measuring company Tutela says Vodafone has New Zealand’s fastest mobile data. The company beats its rivals at b...
Spark and Dense Air agreed on a spectrum swap in the 2.6GHz band. The deal means the two spectrum owners now both have contiguous 2x35MHz blocks. T...
Mobile carrier 2degrees has signed an infrastructure sharing agreement with Vodafone.
Chorus has cut prices internet service providers will pay for gigabit fibre plans. It has also postponed the annual regulated price increase and re...
Chorus has begun work on a second submarine fibre cable linking Waiheke Island to the mainland. The new $3.4 million cable will run six kilometres ...
Gebbies Valley, south of Christchurch, is the site of the latest Rural Connectivity Group tower. The RCG now has 100 operational rural broadband to...
From next month Sky TV will wrap Lightbox programmes into its Neon streaming TV service. The media company acquired rival streaming service Lightbo...
A bill introduced in parliament this week by the Government aims to tackle extremist content. The Films, Videos, and Publications Classification (U...
Despite unprecedented demand, New Zealand’s fibre and copper broadband networks performed well during the Covid–19 lockdown.
Government has directly allocated 160MHz of the 3.5GHz C-band originally set aside for this year’s early access 5G spectrum auction. The move aims ...
Microsoft says it plans to build a New Zealand data centre region. It says this will be a step towards delivering “enterprise grade cloud services ...
Government has set aside $15 million to improve rural broadband. A statement issued by Communications Minister Kris Faafoi and Infrastructure Minis...
Chorus and the other fibre wholesalers are preparing to resume network building and adding connections when lockdown restrictions are eased from Tu...
Cell phone towers at Manurewa, Porirua and near Kaitaia have been damaged by attackers convinced 5G cellular technology is behind the Covid–19 epid...
Chorus is offering to waive wholesale broadband charges for up to 50,000 homes that do not have network access. The move aims to help students now ...
Consumer mobile telco 2degrees is pushing into the business market with fibre broadband. It’s also eyeing up the Internet of Things – Heather Wrig...
Kerikeri recently got fibre broadband and one data-hungry business, Aerial Vision, has been transformed as a result. Another, 'Flashpackers' Hone H...
Network architectures and carrier strategies are evolving towards a platform play model. Research company IDC’s Hugh Ujhazy tells Bill Bennett the ...
Hyperfibre is the next generation of Ultra-Fast Broadband. It moves data much faster than the current top-line gigabit per second (1Gbps) service.
There is a treasure-house of legal movies and television available to New Zealanders. Mauricio Frietas, tech website Geekzone’s creator, has compil...
Burning 2am new parent question? Ask Dr Google. Need help timing contractions? There’s an app for that. Nick Devoy negotiates the new-baby world wi...
Much of, if not all, the attention fast broadband gets concerns users consuming data.
When consumers have a greater handle on broadband performance they can make better choices. The Commerce Commission wants this data so it can check...
Everyone connected to the fibre network has this white plastic box terminal. Bill Bennett unravels its mysteries and talks about the capabilities o...
Investments made to prepare for last year’s Rugby World Cup mean the fibre broadband network is able to cope with the demands of people working fro...
New Zealand voice networks recorded the highest call volumes in history this week. There was a peak on Tuesday following Prime Minister Jacinda Ard...
New Zealand’s telcos have temporarily removed data caps on broadband plans. Meanwhile they are either preparing or have started rejigging operation...
The Commerce Commission’s Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report says fibre overtook copper as New Zealand’s connection technology in the year...
A draft guidance document from the Commerce Commission explains how the telecommunications regulator views fibre unbundling.
Despite relatively flat revenue, earnings growth for the first half of 2020 underpinned a strong result for Chorus.
Spark reported a 4 percent increase in revenue to $1.82 billion for the first half of its 2020 reporting year. It is Spark’s strongest first half r...
Three Vocus subsidiaries: CallPlus, Flip and Orcon have been fined $121,500 for sending false invoices to customers.
American pressure failed to halt Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment company, from taking part in the UK’s 5G network. While the move ...
Chorus reports 56 percent of homes and businesses able to connect to the fibre network have now taken up the option. The network company added more...
March will see an auction for 16 5G spectrum blocks in the 3.5GHz band. Spectrum auctions are usually for 20-year licences. In this round the licen...
Vodafone switched on 5G operations on 100 cell towers in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. The company says New Zealand is the 22n...
A handful of anti-5G protesters picketed Spark's Auckland head office on Thursday. They claim the technology is not safe and is being rolled out wi...
Chorus connected the last segment of fibre in the first stage of its UFB roll-out earlier this week. The company says it completed the network on t...
New Zealand is set to join the select band of countries with fibre networks running at speeds beyond a gigabit. Chorus says it aims to offer two an...
After three years, Chorus CEO Kate McKenzie is stepping down. She spoke to Bill Bennett about her job shepherding Chorus through its change from ne...
Spark’s new digital consultancy, Leaven, is all about making companies’ move to the cloud smooth – and realising early benefits, writes Heather Wright
Edge cloud may be a new buzz phrase for many readers. It involves moving data stored in the cloud closer to home. This has many benefits for users....
Fast fibre is giving Kiwi developers a place in the multi-billion dollar global games industry. It's also a green export. Scott Bartley reports
Neither the tempting nor terrifying VR futures painted by Hollywood are likely, writes Scott Bartley. However, coming developments promise to be qu...
It’s likely Earthlight Communications was New Zealand’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP). The Dunedin-based business started with just two mod...
More than sporting records were broken during the Rugby World Cup 2019. Spark Sport’s groundbreaking streaming coverage of the event meant more dat...
The Rural Connectivity Group aims to see those in even the remotest corners of New Zealand enjoy a quality broadband service for work and play. Sar...
Science fiction doesn’t do a great job of predicting the future. When it comes to telecommunications, Bill Bennett says it does worse
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's latest Quarterly Connectivity Report shows 10 cities now have fibre uptake rates of greater t...
Spark Sport says it served up over six million hours of streaming video during the Rugby World Cup tournament.
New reports from the Chorus annual meeting in Wellington say the company is keeping a watch on mobile network developments as carriers prepare 5G r...
New Zealanders are twice as likely to use fibre as the rest of the world and more than four times as likely as Australians.
Sky TV topped off another busy week for local sport broadcast rights by securing rights to broadcast all SANZAAR matches until 2025.
Chorus has appointed former Telstra and NBN Co executive JB Rousselot as CEO. He will take over from Kate McKenzie on November 20. McKenzie will st...
With shareholder agreements and regulatory permits in place, Southern Cross says its US$300 million Next submarine cable linking New Zealand, Austr...
Spark Sport’s Rugby World Cup streaming got off to a sound start on the tournament’s opening night with 60,000 viewers watching Japan beat Russia.
A Broadband Compare survey found 75 percent of New Zealanders who use streaming services pay for at least one of the services.
Vodafone says it is spending $10 million on a team of New Zealand-based ‘X Squad’ customer service agents after admitting past failings in customer...
Australian mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Kogan Mobile has launched in New Zealand. The service will use the Vodafone network and has been ...
Kate McKenzie says she will leave Chorus at the end of the year after three years as CEO and managing director. She says she doesn't plan to take a...
Spark saw annual profit rise 12 percent in the year to June 30. Much of the gain came from the Quantum, the company’s sometimes brutal cost-cutting...
A letter written by Huawei New Zealand managing director Yanek Fan to the Government Communications Security Bureau suggests the company will pull ...
Spark faces a bill of more than $1 million as it asks fixed wireless home phone customers to return their power back-up hardware. The company went ...
Vodafone says it will launch a 5G mobile network in December with as many as 120 sites ready on day one. It will be the nation’s first practical pu...
Sky TV has rebooted its streaming sports service with a new Sky Sport Now app offering 12 dedicated sports channels. The new app will replace Sky’s...
Chorus reports that half of all its broadband connections now use fibre. The company added 43,000 fibre connections during the quarter, taking it t...
The Commerce Commission has given Infratil the go ahead to acquire a 50 percent stake in Vodafone.
The Government updated its cyber security strategy singling out five areas for priority attention. In the recent budget the Government earmarked $8...
After seven years reshaping and re-branding Spark to thrive in a flatter, more competitive telecommunications market, managing director Simon Moutt...
Wi-Fi 6 is set to make home – and work – use of Wi-Fi a fast, sweet experience, writes Scott Bartley. We will need it too with device numbers rocke...
Two small service providers – one from the Wairarapa, the other from Gisborne – tell Johanna Egar how they are bringing broadband internet to rural...
It wasn’t the sort of story you’d expect to emerge from Brooklyn, the middle-class Wellington suburb perched high above the capital, writes Peter G...
NZQA is concerned about both sides of the digital divide as it allows more exams to be taken online, reports Sarah Putt. Lower decile schools, whos...
8K televisions are already available, but how necessary are they, asks Hadyn Green? What benefits do such super-high resolution televisions bring?
Customers will soon buy their internet services from ‘trusted brands’ rather than traditional telcos, reports Heather Wright. Devoli aims to be the...
Super-fast broadband running at speeds of 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) is coming soon. Nielsen’s Law predicted this and New Zealanders are on trac...
Elderly folk were not keen on fibre when it was first introduced. It turns out they didn’t like the lack of a dial tone. They complained that they ...
Last week Australian power company AGL Energy walked away from buying Vocus Group. This week The Australian newspaper reports AGL Energy could make...
Australian energy company AGL withdrew its A$3 billion takeover offer for Vocus. That makes it the second potential buy to walk away from the busin...
Most New Zealanders can reliably stream high definition video most of the time according to the Commerce Commission’s second new style broadband mo...
The Swedish private equity company EQT has withdrawn its bid for Vocus Group. The move came after Vocus opened its books to the potential buyer as ...
A Statement of Preliminary Issues released by the Commerce Commission suggests it is unlikely to object to the proposed acquisition of 50 percent o...
A paper released this week by the Commerce Commission lays out the organisation’s vision of how fibre networks will be regulated in the future. It’...
Vodafone Group has sold Vodafone New Zealand to Infratil and Brookfield Asset Management. For now the deal is conditional. Approval is needed from ...
An external review by MartinJenkins, a consulting firm, found shortcomings in Chorus subcontracting. Subcontractors build the company’s UFB fibre n...
Spark New Zealand managing director Simon Moutter is retiring. From 30 June Jolie Hodson will lead the business. She is currently the company’s cus...
Like most years, the 2016 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona devoted an exhibition hall to phone makers.
Chorus is testing a residential 10Gbps fibre service. It’s the fastest home broadband available anywhere in the world.
Esports is big and getting bigger. Can it challenge traditional sports in New Zealand? Scott Bartley finds out what is happening in the surprising ...
From January, service providers will be able to buy unbundled fibre, writes Bill Bennett. What does this mean? How might unbundling change the way ...
Fibre is taking over from conventional television delivery, and Freeview is now pushing this move with a new streaming service. Sarah Putt reports
Inspire Net’s CEO and founder, James Watts, combines a vision of where the internet is going with a robust can-do attitude. He talks about the comp...
Asia-Pacific’s only regional internet service provider (ISP) MyRepublic is growing fast and creating a few benign headaches along the way as it hel...
Rural New Zealanders will get a choice of mobile network provider once the fibre-and-wireless broadband network covers the country. Better services...
The Rugby World Cup is coming soon, but how well will Spark deliver the iconic Big Event. Hadyn Green considers the challenges facing the telco as ...
Banishing plastics is just the beginning with recycling, writes Holly Cushen. Mobile phones are valuable and ripe for proper recycling. This is fin...
Vocus and Vodafone, the two telcos partnering to unbundle UFB fibre, were quick to register opposition to Chorus’ unbundled fibre pricing.
Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees want Facebook, Twitter and Google to take more responsibility for content posted on their sites. The leaders of New Ze...
Spark's streaming sport service started operation on Thursday, just in time for this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix.
Chorus says the average connection speed across its network has now passed 100Mbps. This is ten times the average connection speed eight years ago.
Communications Minister Kris Faafoi says the government aims to auction the first 5G mobile spectrum in early 2020.
Spark revealed the company's Spark Sport service will launch early next month. Customers signing for the service will get a one month free trial. A...
Chorus is testing Nokia's WPON. It's a wireless technology that connects the fibre network in a street to a home or business when a direct physical...
On Thursday Vocus and Vodafone used a virtual reality set-up in a Parnell home to demonstrate what an unbundled fibre connection might look like. T...
Next month a group of New Zealanders will test the world's fastest fibre broadband experience. From mid-March, 30 volunteers will get early access ...
InternetNZ research shows 94 percent of New Zealanders are concerned about the security of their personal data. Yet despite the high level of fear,...
An offer to pay for a cybersecurity evaluation centre controlled by the GCSB is Huawei's latest proposal as it seeks to win its way back into the l...
Freeview has launched a low-cost streaming device that gives consumers television content without the need for a UHF aerial or satellite dish. The ...
Chorus has published a document showing how it will approach fibre unbundling.
New Zealand is the latest western country to exclude Huawei from supplying key hardware for strategic telecommunications networks. It follows simil...
London-based Dense Air has purchased spectrum from Blue Reach and Cayman Wireless.
Chorus says it now has 500,000 Ultra-Fast Broadband connections on its network. The wholesale network company also announced plans to cut wholesale...
Hockey has joined the Rugby World Cup, English Premier League Football and Formula One racing at Spark Sport. The telco has picked up all rights fo...
Communications Minister Kris Faafoi says he has “not ruled out” banning Huawei from building 5G networks.
New Zealand reset the telco sector's regulatory foundations with the 2011 Telecommunications Amendment Bill. The move saw Telecom NZ become Spark a...
Enabling virtual internet providers is fast becoming Devoli’s core business. Sarah Putt checks out the company working with new fixed-line market n...
Health was one of three priority areas selected for the initial roll-out of Ultra-Fast Broadband and the Rural Broadband Initiative. So, has connec...
Everyone wants 5G mobile technology, says IDC associate vice-president Hugh Ujhazy. It means you’ll be able to watch 4K videos while on the move. Y...
Holly Cushen is a senior communications advisor for Chorus. She has worked in telecommunications for 10 years and thinks the industry loves its acr...
Winning new business is important to new Vodafone CEO Jason Paris, but it’s not his only focus. He talks to Bill Bennett about Vodafone giving Kiwi...
Since 2010 Chorus has run an art programme using its cabinets as canvases to discourage graffiti and brighten up the environment. These otherwise d...
The landline isn’t quite dead yet, although it may be heading for the intensive care unit. Yet many homes and certainly most businesses still have ...
Voice over IP is becoming the standard for how all voice calls are delivered, including landline calls. However, VoIP is still not well understood....
Telcos will pay $46 for a wholesale 100/20 fibre connection from next July. The new regulated price for a UFB anchor service was confirmed this wee...
At Stuff Tom Pullar-Strecker reports on an interview with newly-appointed Broadcasting Minister Kris Faafoi who says more media firms could team wi...
Chorus installed 50,000 new fibre connections in the September quarter. That is a new record for the number of connections in a quarter. During the...
Green technology spokesman Gareth Hughes told New Zealand Herald reporter Chris Keall InternetNZ could handle the national CTO role. The position i...
Spark has switched on its second Internet of Things network. The new network uses LTE Cat-M1 technology, effectively a form of 4G mobile, to provid...
Ultra-Fast Broadband uptake is now 44 percent across the nation. In Waiuku, Tauranga, Nelson, Hamilton, Dunedin, Whangarei and Blenheim uptake is n...
New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission has won a preliminary injunction against a US company that scrapes registration data potentially breaching the...
Chorus says it made a record number of fibre connections in August. During the month more than 16,700 new connections were installed. The company p...
Chorus reported a net after tax profit of $85 million for the 2018 financial year. That’s down 24 percent on last year’s $113 million. The company ...
Spark’s efforts to cut staff cost may help the company’s long-term profitability, but investors face short-term pain. On Wednesday the company post...
Spark has won the rights to the English Premier League. It will have New Zealand exclusive rights to the football competition from the start of the...
Spark says it is on track to begin rolling out a 5G mobile network in 2020. Services will go live during that year. This confirms the date the comp...
Kordia has begun broadcasting demonstration 4K Ultra High Definition TV on its own Freeview channel. The first official broadcast was on Wednesday ...
Vodafone is offering a fixed wireless broadband service to customers waiting for a fibre connection. Customers signing for the Ultimate Home Fibre ...
A software update to Fortnite, a popular computer fighting game, saw traffic on the Chorus network jump 20 percent overnight. The traffic spiked la...
The Commerce Commission wants to continue regulating mobile roaming. It said so in a paper written for the regular five yearly review of the Commis...
A new paper from the Commerce Commission explains the thinking behind its broadband performance testing programme. It talks about the move to SamKn...
Images emblazoned on blades of grass and much more – a revolution in television is coming, writes Haydn Green
Facebook messages at centre of Christchurch teen’s death, Napier’s mayor abused – these represent just a couple of the many thousands of ‘toxic’ on...
Have you streamed the entire Netflix back catalogue or shot every Xbox Live baddie in sight? Are you wondering what else your fast broadband connec...
Since Chorus established its art programme, artists throughout the country have been painting its telecommunications cabinets in a bid to prevent v...
Sky won’t be too rattled about losing the Rugby World Cup (RWC) rights to Spark and TVNZ.
Napier ISP Now, is providing telco-style network services – based on SDN (software defined network) technology – to Hawkes Bay’s five councils, wri...
They can be the heart of your budding smart home and your willing digital assistant, writes Scott Bartley. However, there is a sting in the tail wi...
Along with TVNZ, Spark has won the rights to broadcast next year’s Rugby World Cup. The showcase series of games could be a catalyst for change in ...
Smaller ISPs struggle nowadays if they stick with offering a vanilla service. To succeed they need to add value. Two local ISPs show how they did j...
New Zealand’s next largest broadband service provider after Spark, Vodafone and Vocus is not a traditional telco. Bay of Plenty-based Trustpower st...
Speaking at the Tuanz Rural Connectivity Symposium, Communications Minister Clare Curran said next year’s Rugby World Cup will test the nation’s ne...
Chorus says it has completed Dunedin’s fibre network nearly two years ahead of schedule. It has also completed the first phase of the Ultra-Fast Br...
Russell Stanners will step down as Vodafone CEO at the end of October. He will replaced by Jason Paris who, until late last year, headed Spark New ...
Vocus Group and Vodafone say they will form a joint venture to unbundle UFB fibre services. There were few specifics, but at a press conference CEO...
2degrees followed its 2016 maiden profit with a 33 percent lift in the year ended December 31. The telco saw revenue grow faster than costs. Net pr...
Chorus has begun testing Nokia’s optical wavelength service assurance and commissioning technology for layer 1 networks. The technology means Choru...
Trustpower’s latest financial result shows the company’s mix of electricity, gas, broadband and consumer electronics pays off.
After 257 written submissions and 31 personal submitters the parliamentary select committee overseeing the Telecommunications Amendments Bill relea...
The Commerce Commission has asked the telecommunications industry how to fund the $12 million it estimates it will cost to fund new fibre regulatio...
Melbourne-based telco Vocus failed to find a buyer willing to pay the asking price for its New Zealand business. Unofficially the company was said ...
Vodafone’s decision to rebrand its hybrid fibre-coaxial network as FibreX has landed it with 27 charges under the Fair Trading Act. The move follow...
Spark and TVNZ have won the rights to broadcast the 2019 Rugby World Cup. While some games will be shown on free-to-air old school television, fans...
This week saw the Commerce Commission release its market development snapshot report. It's a compact, state-of-the-industry report. It looks back a...
Writing at Business Day, Tom Pullar-Strecker reports that Vodafone chief executive Russell Stanners has “dialled-back” expectations the company mig...
The CEO of Voyager is taking the company on a second journey as it consolidates and takes advantage of industry changes. Rob O’Neill reports on how...
Online grocery shopping, an Airbnb tyre service and trolleys that use artificial intelligence – Amazon is having an effect on local retailers, writ...
For many consumers the prospect of a broadband connection raises seemingly unanswerable questions.
Fibre is making Taranaki’s rural wireless internet service run much better. It can reach deeper into rural areas it couldn’t get to before.
Fibre and wireless are often seen as rival technologies, but they are proving complementary. May Taylor reports that while 5G will likely be the un...
When all the UFB fibre has been laid, Chorus’ CEO aims to use it to leverage Internet of Things apps and artificial intelligence, as well as run Ne...
There are some simple things you can do, and, while some of the more complicated suggestions may sound a bit techie, they’re not that hard, writes ...
Software Defined Networks are being described as cloud computing for networks. The promise is SDN will shake up the telecoms world and usher in new...
I have gigabit fibre at home. It’s brilliant. I can download content at incredible speeds. We can watch 4k Netflix while fiddling on our phones. Th...
Tussock Innovation’s IoT technology promises to keep our water clean and us dry. Heather Wright describes how Waterwatch could mean the end of dirt...
All the streaming services, from Netflix to Google to Facebook, come out of red server boxes. Hadyn Green describes how streaming works – and where...
This week the Commerce Commission widened the scope of its mobile market investigation. It will now include 5G, looking at deployment and spectrum ...
On Monday Spark held a public demonstration of 5G mobile technology outside Parliament in Wellington. Vodafone plans an Auckland demonstration even...
Spark announced it is shuffling its leadership ranks in a release to the financial markets. The company says the move is part of a broader business...
In its state of New Zealand broadband report, IDC says the market is growing but profit is hard to find. IDC questions the sector’s sustainability ...
While Chorus saw a year-on-year fall in earnings and revenue for the half year to December 31, the company is tracking close to the top of its guid...
Spark saw net earnings fall 3.4 in the six months to December 31and indicated it may miss its full year forecast, despite a revenue increase of 1.6...
None of the more than 60 people who applied to become New Zealand’s first chief technology officer managed to convince the appointment panel.
Consumer Price Index data from Statistics New Zealand shows the real cost of telecommunications services dropped 6.3 percent in 2017.
Consumer says when it comes to customer satisfaction Vodafone rates bottom in both mobile and broadband.
Slingshot has dropped the price of its fastest unlimited data fibre broadband plan to a shade under $100. The Gigantic fibre plan is $99.95 a month...
Chorus’ network hit its 2017 peak at 9.25pm on December 10. The broadband network was delivering 1.328 Terabits per second.
Spark says its LoRaWan network will be operating in four centres by Christmas. The network goes live first in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch an...
5G is a whole family of technologies that promises to support everything from remote surgery to virtual reality, to smart cars, factories and more....
Internet speed testing is a controversial business. TrueNet tells Heather Wright how it uses home-grown software and tight-lipped probes to ensure ...
Netflix changed people’s broadband use quickly, but not everyone is a fan. Elly Strang looks at Chorus’ research into our broadband habits and turn...
The game is on as broadcasters and tech rivals battle for content and eyeballs, writes Scott Bartley. And, while snatching rugby rights gives playe...
Getting telecommunications restored after the Kaikoura earthquake called for a big co-operative effort between the telcos. Heather Wright tells how...
Seven years ago, 2degrees launched. It started as a mobile-only carrier. There were cellular towers in just four centres, but even then the company...
Net neutrality has been controversial for years in the US. It is rarely out of the news there. Until now it hasn’t been an issue in New Zealand. Ye...
The experts promise a shiny new world. The reality, however, is less glamorous but more useful than you might think, writes Bill Bennett
Sky TV has launched legal action in a bid to force internet service providers to block access to certain streaming and video download websites. As ...
Writing at Fairfax's BusinessDay site, Tom Pullar-Strecker reports on a joint Spark-TVNZ bid for the broadcasting rights for the next Rugby World C...
Orcon says it will close its Manila call centre and open a new one at the company's office on Auckland's North Shore. The company says the new call...
Vodafone says it will start moving PSTN customers to a voice over IP service later this month.
Chorus is working on a pilot programme with Network for Learning that extends a school’s internet service into student’s homes. The pair are also u...
Computerworld New Zealand reports that Chorus says it has become an 'active wholesaler' to stem the loss of customers to rival networks.
Vocus plans to sell its New Zealand business by June 2018. The local operation includes broadband, fixed-line, mobile and energy. The brands includ...
Vodafone has rebooted its online TV service. The new version uses a puck-sized box packaged with a remote control to connect customers to the cloud...
The Commerce Commission has given a green light to the mobile market study.
Vodafone has a new speech-mark logo and a new slogan. The bright red colour stays, although there will be less of it. From today the white on red w...
Nokia phones are back. Spark has exclusive New Zealand rights to a range of new Nokia-branded mobile phones made under licence by HMD Global.
Hawaiki says it is on track to begin laying its submarine cable in October. The cable will link New Zealand and Australia with the US mainland via ...
Spark New Zealand has added a third Evolved Packet Core node to its mobile network. It says this will enable more capacity and greater resilience.
2degrees says it will close its 2G mobile network in March 2018.
The Vodafone Foundation has picked five organisations to take part in its Change Accelerator programme. The programme aims to help excluded and dis...
Last Friday Vodafone said it would close its email service. The service is still used by more than 200,000 customers.
Vodafone says its new 400Gbps per wavelength optical system is a world first. The company worked with CIena to build the system to carry live traff...
There was slap on the wrist for Vodafone and Spark in The Commerce Commission's annual consumer issues report. For the second year in a row the tel...
2degrees sweetened its mobile data plans for a second time in a fortnight after Spark responded to its earlier move. On Monday, 2degrees announced ...
There was a surprise bonus when Prime Minister Bill English joined Communications Minister Simon Bridges to announce the RBI2 contracts on Wednesda...
Jason Paris, who heads Spark's Home, Mobile and Business division says New Zealand small businesses are not adapting fast enough to the online world.
Chorus reported an annual profit up 24 percent on the year earlier. Net profit climbed to $113 million up from $91 million in 2016. Revenue grew th...
Analyst firm IDC says New Zealanders are now among the world’s keenest buyers of paid online services. Some 22 percent of consumers here say servic...
Utilities Disputes Limited will manage disputes when people living in shared driveways or apartment buildings want access to new networks like the ...
Chorus spent $7 million upgrading 125 rural cabinets to VDSL technology. The company says this could mean improved broadband for 10,000 rural custo...
This week the Commerce Commission delivered on last month’s promise to deal with dubious practices in the telecommunications sector. It sent warnin...
Southern Cross says its recent seabed survey found a faster route for its Next cable project which will connect Auckland and Sydney to Los Angeles.
Earlier this week Communications Minister Simon Bridges introduced The Telecommunications Amendment Bill to Parliament. The bill sets out to update...
2degrees has signed a multi-year backhaul contract with Chorus. The deal replaces a mix of services from providers including Spark and Vocus.
Communications Minister Simon Bridges wants the Commerce Commission to investigate the mobile market.
The Crown Fibre Holdings model used to build New Zealand's fibre network is being extended to give councils a way to build other essential infrastr...
Two-out-of-three New Zealanders think their personal data is safe when they use public wi-fi hotspots. Roughly the same number use hotspots regardl...
Health is one area where rural broadband can change lives, even save lives. Broadband gives health professionals and patients fast access to resou...
You can’t move in this country this week without someone talking about the Internet of Things. Last Thursday Communications Minister Simon Bridges...
Ten new start-ups have joined Vodafone's xone accelerator programme. Xone is a six-month accelerator programme that runs out of Vodafone's South I...
Sky and Vodafone have formally abandoned plans to merge. The two issued a terse statement making this clear to the New Zealand Stock Exchange on ...
Television New Zealand has bowed to the inevitable. From Monday, the state-owned broadcaster will livestream channels 1 and 2.
Spark fired up five cellular towers to give Queenstown the fastest mobile data speeds in the country. The company says users have managed 400Mbps d...
The Commerce Commission says almost all the recent cut in the regulated wholesale broadband price ended up in customers' pockets.
Communications Minister Simon Bridges says the first phase of the government's Ultra-Fast Broadband programme is three-quarters complete. The proje...
Enable Networks says it expects to finish its fibre build by the end of next year. That's a year ahead of schedule.
Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report clocks New Zealand’s average connection speed at 14.7Mbps. That’s up from 12.9Mbps in the previous qua...
On Tuesday Vocus told the ASX it had a $2.1 billion bid from US private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. According to the Australian F...
Communications Minister Simon Bridges says a successful test launch from the Rocket Lab site on the Mahia Peninsula could signal the start of a New...
School students can learn the skills needed to stay safe online by taking the Digital Licence interactive online quiz.
Communications Minister Simon Bridges has announced the government's reforms to the Telecommunications Act. As expected the changes are in line wit...
It’s powerful, which means your PC and associated equipment might not be up to the job
On January 26, the government said 150 more areas will get Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB)
Nationwide UFB, a data centre network and 5G driverless cars are a billion-dollar investment
In the opening years of this century an online bookseller realised it could make money selling its internally developed virtual server technology t...
James Young-Drew, a solicitor with Wigley and Company, says broadband speed transparency is an important legal compliance issue
Wireless carriers and vendors say 5G can oust fibre broadband. Internet consultant Benoît Felten disagrees
You use it much more than you think – and your router is the workhorse it rides on. Yours may need putting out to grass
Consumers are enjoying the best telco services ever for the lowest prices.
The long talked about technology could be on the horizon if the stars align. They are nudging closer
Network for Learning, the free, uncapped, fast schools’ internet service, overdelivers.
Vocus fibre broadband customers with unlimited data plans download an average of 430GB a month. The average for all fibre customers is 425GB.
After seven years in business 2degrees is in the black. The company reports a profit of $13.4 million for the 2016 financial year which ended in De...
Consumers now get better value for money from telecommunications services. That's the headline message in the latest Commerce Commission annual tel...
Communications minister Simon Bridges says by 2025 99 percent of New Zealanders will be able to download at 50 megabits per second
Local technology organisations want a Ministry for the Future after this year's election.
Here’s the nitty-gritty your grumpy-customer-with-the-slow-router needs to know. Haydn Green describes what the newest routers can do – and what st...
Fast broadband is creating a giant new internet arena for online games and superstar gamers. The best show off their fast-twitch skills to million...
Vocus is our third-biggest telco. It’s little known but it has a big game-plan that sounds eerily like the All Blacks’ game-winning strategy – and ...
A new generation of cellular technology is on the way. Wireless companies and carriers hope to have the first 5G networks operating by 2020. What c...
New Zealand may soon have four submarine cable options, ensuring a robust connection to the world even if a fascinated shark should nibble through ...
Education has always been an important part of Tuanz’s mission. When it was first set up, in the 1980s, the goal was to help people in companies us...
Chorus nethead Kurt Rodgers is an avid rugby, soccer and cricket fan – with three non-sport-watching youngsters at home. He tells Nikki Mandow how ...
Behind the headline politics, Australia’s National Broadband Network is being rolled out to nearly all Australians – wherever they live. It draws o...
Chorus started a nationwide art project in 2010 that’s seen around 120 street telecommunications cabinets transformed every year since.
When was the last time you surfed the web? How long since you told someone you planned to travel the information superhighway? What about visiting ...
Tucked into an unexpectedly leafy part of the Auckland suburb of Albany, Megatel’s offices are those of a standard small ISP, with a bit of trendy ...
Rosalie Nelson, head of insights at Chorus, says we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in how we use the internet in New Zealand. And the exponent...
Higher than expected demand, complex installs and plenty of cooks in the kitchen have created some well-publicised issues for consumers wanting fib...
New Zealand ISPs have been criticised in the past for low speeds and lack of consistency, but TrueNet's John Butt says it's mostly good news these ...
How smartphones, cloud-based software, drones and Ultra-Fast Broadband are creating a productivity gap between the technology haves and have-nots o...
Every year, KPMG’s Agribusiness Agenda takes a look at the primary sector – what agribusiness leaders are concerned about, and what they need to be...
Amy Adams has been the Minister for Communications since 2011, a year after the UFB rollout started. Living on a farm in Canterbury, she knows the ...
Canterbury high country farmers Dan and Mandy Shand high speed broadband to run three export-focussed businesses, a sheep and beef farm – and two c...
As more and more critical health and technical information is accessed via the internet, HeliOtago decided it needed a radical broadband transforma...
Could 2016 be the year when telehealth finally comes of age in New Zealand?
Most people’s mental image of a rural Plunket nurse has a weighing scales and a Plunket book in it. But it probably doesn’t have a tablet and a sma...
Imagine you are a year 13 student in a rural area, say Tapanui (between Dunedin and Invercargill) or Kaitaia in the Far North. You want to study ac...
Connectivity is changing the world of business and no sector is immune to ‘the great disruption’. So, says Frances Valintine, founder of Tech Futur...
As the old phrase goes, if you can’t beat ’em, sell ’em high-speed internet access. And that’s what Fairfax Media has decided to do, announcing the...
New Zealand is doing well internationally when it comes to uptake of fast internet. Now we need to ensure we make the most of the economic potentia...
Brussels-based expert in high-speed fibre broadband Stefaan Vanhastel tells Nikki Mandow what’s holding us back from getting the speed we want.
After 20 years building broadband networks, Kurt Rodgers works in the sweet spot where fibre broadband demand meets supply. Think of it as having a...
Kym Niblock believes there is room in the New Zealand market for several streaming video-on-demand services – and she wants Lightbox to be one of t...
Students in Becka Nathan's classroom are watching rap, making Dubsmash videos and retelling the three little pigs story, with the wolf as a cyber b...
Dr Ben Wheeler is running remote diabetes clinics for rural Otago families, saving them the long trip to Dunedin.
Mike Jenkins is using video (or video in video) for product launches and client updates, so he and his staff don’t have to spend so much time on th...
Pharmacist Nai Yeat is using high definition security footage to keep him and his staff safe – and protect his stock.
Danu Abeysuriya's company Rush Digital is working on a bunch of crazy (and not so crazy) virtual reality projects for a range of clients in New Zea...
Last year, the far north settlement of Mitimiti was put “on the grid”, and Auckland-based IT consultant Robyn Kamira (Te Rarawa) talks about it’s r...
In 2014, Dunedin won the Gigatown competition and now City Council CEO Sue Bidrose shares how it’s transformed the city.
For Rhonda Kite, founder of interactive book publisher Kiwa Digital, video is a marketing tool, a learning feature, and a way to add sign language ...
Video is an important part of a major factory innovation process for Florentines Patisserie, says managing director Greg Knight.