Small telcos are uneasy about plans to deregulate mobile termination rates. Winners at the NZ Compare awards. NCSC gets in ...

One New Zealand has a three-year deal with Australia’s Fastter, a business packaging MVNOs for brands looking for quick entry into the mobile market. To customers, MVNOs or Mobile Virtual Network ...

The Commerce Commission says New Zealand’s widespread adoption of low earth orbit satellites in country areas has reset rural broadband competition. Much of the focus of the ComCom’s 2024 ...

Leo satellite broadband has been popular with New Zealanders in remote areas since it first arrived four years ago. A year ago Download Weekly reported: “New Zealand has the highest number of ...

Apple’s popular MacBook Air gets an M4 speed bump, more memory, a webcam upgrade and a pale blue paint job — all for NZ$50 less than last year’s model. The 2025 MacBook Air M4 has a familiar design ...

The Commerce Commission has issued a draft recommendation to remove the access regulations governing Chorus’ copper network in areas beyond the reach of the UFB fibre network. For years copper enjoyed ...

The latest stats from APNIC, the Asia-Pacific regional Internet address registry, estimates Starlink has 85k New Zealand users. That’s a shade under 2 per cent of the total market. SpaceX has achieved ...

To no-one’s surprise the Commerce Commission’s draft review of mobile termination rates recommends they stay regulated. The termination rate is the price one phone company charges another when a call ...

Kordia has pulled the plug on the joint venture it formed with Tait Communications to build the Next Generation Critical Communications network. The move leaves Christchurch-based Tait holding the ...

Spark’s profit dropped by a third after the company faced what chair Justine Smyth describes as “one of the most challenging periods in its history”. While the company’s reported net profit came in at ...

One New Zealand customers on prepaid plans can now use the company’s Satellite TXT service. Previously, Satellite TXT, which launched shortly before Christmas 2024, was only available to customers on ...

Recent sabotage and theft at New Zealand cell towers highlight risks to connectivity. One NZ adds eight new sites and TCF calls for a rethink of the telecommunications development levy. Cell tower ...