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An overview of New Zealand’s telecommunications industry, covering structure, competition, regulation and how providers work ...

The Commerce Commission says our mature market no longer needs mobile termination rate regulation. Chorus launched digital ...

Primo managing director Matthew Harrison says a visiting Australian warship took a number of his company’s fixed wireless broadband access points offline as it passed down the Taranaki coast. In a ...

During the Covid–19 lockdown the Rural Connectivity Group switched on 29 new sites. The new sites connect about 2000 homes and businesses to fixed wireless broadband and increase the reach of the ...

New Zealand’s geography means mobile networks cover roughly half the nation’s landmass but close to 100% of where people live and work. The networks are used by almost every adult. In 2024 there were ...

We’ve all heard about the digital divide — how disadvantaged New Zealanders don’t have the same access to broadband as their better-off neighbours. We also know about the rural-urban digital divide.

A partnership between 2degrees and AST SpaceMobile offers a distinct take on mobile to satellite. Chorus wants government help fixing digital divide. Another data record breaks. Render of AST ...

Starlink passed the 4 million customer milestone at the end of September. SpaceX’s low earth orbit satellite broadband network added a million customers or 33 percent in around 4 months. In December ...

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 ...

Submarine cables under attack – how vulnerable is New Zealand? In November two submarine telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea were damaged. Officials suspect, but have yet to prove, a Chinese ...

New Zealand’s UFB fibre network reaches 87 per cent of the population. The other 13 per cent, mainly in rural areas, are left behind. We need to fix that. New Zealand’s UFB fibre network reaches 87 ...