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 ...

Learn why many writers find the iPad is better than a laptop and find out how to get started using it as your creative, digital typewriter. Apple didn't design the original iPad for writing. It was a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chorus’ plan to extend the fibre network further into rural areas has made it on to the Infrastructure Priorities Programme. This is a list of projects that the Te Waihanga, the Infrastructure ...

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 ...

Showing a mobile phone on TV3 back when there still was a TV3 and when phone makers could get away with tiny screens. This is Bill Bennett’s technology and telecommunications news, opinion and ...

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”.

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 ...