Recent sabotage and theft at New Zealand cell towers highlight risks to connectivity. One NZ adds eight new sites and TCF ...

Consumer NZ says Spark and 2degrees have reduced mobile billing transparency, making it harder for customers to compare plans ...

Oppo Pad SE Matte Display Edition delivers solid value with its anti-glare screen, long battery life and better performance than cheap tablets ...

Chorus and DataGrid have gone public on plans to build a 6,000km trans-Tasman submarine cable network. The new Tasman Ring Network has a planned capacity of 540 Tbps. Depending on demand levels, the ...

Spark sells remaining mobile tower network stake for $314m. 2degrees gets external validation of its greenery. Microsoft opens its NZ data centre. Spark says it has agreed to sell its remaining 17 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Commerce Commission study found telecommunications customers continue to face barriers if they attempt to switch between service providers. Almost a third of people wanting to switch found the ...

Almost every mobile user in New Zealand will spend most of their time on 5G networks by the end of the decade according to international research conducted by GSMA. In its Mobile Economy Asia Pacific ...

Australian private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has purchased 75 percent of Spark’s data centre business. The transaction is made up of $486 million in cash and an additional $98 million ...

The Commerce Commission has given Chorus the green light to invest $1.7 billion over the next four years after cutting $172 million from the fibre company’s submitted plan. It says it disallowed ...