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Starlink's direct to cell technology now used for One NZ's IoT network. Spark broadband price rise has consequences. Tuatahi ...
Spark delays 3G shutdown to March 2026 as rivals stick to earlier timelines. Also in this issue: the shift from VPNs to Zero ...
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 ...
If you think wireless latency is bad, wait until you try satellite. Patrick Smellie writes for BusinessDesk:. The Pacific Islands, remote parts of rural New Zealand and poor but populous parts of ...
Connecting Aotearoa: Chorus joins the BYO fibre party. Chorus CEO Mark Aue would like to extend New Zealand’s fibre network. Today it reaches around 87 percent of the population.
Microsoft opened Azure data centres in Sydney and Melbourne this week. In theory Australia’s East Coast is just a 14ms ping from Auckland. Realistically most traffic will take longer. It isn’t like ...
Buying Stuff Fibre is a medium-sized consolidation play for the Australian-owned telco. Vocus’s customer numbers will climb 10 percent when the company absorbs Stuff Fibre. The Australian telco picked ...
Getting more New Zealanders online is the government’s goal with its Digital Inclusion Blueprint. The plan is to bridge the digital divide and make sure people don’t miss out as more and more vital ...
“Anyone saying that Android apps on ChromeOS are a good experience is delusional.” In Chrome OS has stalled out, Dave Ruddock says Google’s Chrome OS has failed to live up to its potential.Ruddock is ...
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 ...
The next generation of mobile technology is still at least five years away. But when it arrives New Zealand could be among the first countries to get it. The telecommunications industry still hasn’t ...
You might be forgiven for thinking that Amazon’s Project Kuiper doesn’t have much hope of competing with SpaceX in the low Earth orbit satellite broadband business. Amazon is preparing to launch ...