Spark sharpens SPK-30 strategy; 5G boosted by Tū Ātea; new API services with Aduna; Apple unveils slimmer iPhone Air; Oppo ...

Fibre dominates as FWB and satellite uptake also surge, AWS launch stumbles, ministers review telecoms regulation, IDC ...

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 ...

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 ...

Communications Minister Amy Adams says the government will spend $150 million extending rural broadband. The Rural Broadband Initiative second stage has a $100 million budget. The money is to boost ...

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 ...

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 ...

HP’s OmniBook Ultra Flip 14 is a thin, light and flexible Windows hybrid. Its battery life is impressive for an Intel laptop, but it fails to live up to HP’s promise of “the ultimate AI experience”.

Chorus posted a flat first half result for the 2025 financial year showing a net loss of $5 million. Sky finds another satellite. First Eutelsat 5G satellite call. Chorus posted a flat first half ...

Research from Kordia’s Business Cyber Security Report 2025 shows that nearly 60% of New Zealand businesses were hit by cyber-attacks in the past year, AI-powered threats and ransomware payments are ...

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 ...

A decade ago the media sector, in effect, saw off digital piracy. Now piracy is on the way back. Last week the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) published a report showing piracy declined slowly ...