Latest Telecommunications Headlines
Lightwire announced as partner in rural broadband milestone
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 17:57:37 +1300 | Lightwire
Trans-Tasman telecommunications company Lightwire is proud to be a new partner of Crown Infrastructure Partners’ (CIP) Rural Broadband Initiative Phase Two (RBI2), providing significant additional rural broadband coverage across the Waikato and ...More >>
China sponsoring cyber efforts to steal IP, GCSB says
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:41:49 +1300 | BusinessDesk
The Government Communications Security Bureau says Chinese authorities have been linked to a global hacking campaign to steal commercial intellectual property that reached into New Zealand.More >>
Cyber campaign attributed to China
Fri, 21 Dec 2018 08:56:40 +1300 | Government Communications Security Bureau
The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has established links between the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) and a global campaign of cyber-enabled commercial intellectual property theft. More >>
Entec introduce NZ to instant communication feature
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 14:58:07 +1300 | Entec
Entec introduce NZ to instant communication feature of lone worker product Entec is getting ready to launch a product to the New Zealand market which will markedly improve worker safety.More >>
Southern Cross Cables Limited selects new CEO
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:14:04 +1300 | Southern Cross
Southern Cross Cables Limited announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Laurie Miller as Southern Cross’ new President and Chief Executive Officer. Miller will assume the new role on March 1, 2019, leading Southern Cross into the start ...More >>
Telstra to join Southern Cross Cable, diluting Spark share
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 21:08:10 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Dec. 18 (BusinessDesk) - Australian telco Telstra will join Southern Cross Cable Network's SX NEXT project as an anchor customer and take a quarter stake in the trans-Pacific underwater link operator. More >>
Govt scraps CTO role in favour of 'a small group'
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 17:30:55 +1300 | BusinessDesk
The government has abandoned its vexed search for a Chief Technology Officer in favour of "a small group of people" to assist it in mapping policy to guide New Zealand's digital technology environment.More >>
Annual Report shows fibre broadband on the heels of Copper
Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:06:22 +1300 | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today released its 12th Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report, which reveals that fibre is poised to overtake copper as the main way kiwi households access the internet.More >>
Newly Established Emergency Radio System
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:29:08 +1300 | Mohaka Rafting
The remote areas of Hawke’s Bay’s Kaweka Forest Park and Mohaka River now have a direct communication link to the outside world, thanks to a local initiative which has seen the establishment of an emergency radio capability for the area. The three-year ...More >>
Vodafone keeps Kiwis connected this summer
Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:54:25 +1300 | Vodafone
As Kiwis get planning their summer break, Vodafone is also well underway in its preparations for keeping everyone connected over the holiday period. During the Christmas holiday period last year*, Vodafone customers used a massive 2,405 Terabytes of data ...More >>
New Zealand’s First Cyber Prep Academy
Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:39:43 +1300 | Unitec
Auckland, 12 December 2018 – Unitec Institute of Technology, in partnership with managed security services provider SecOps NZ, is launching New Zealand’s first Cyber Prep Academy (CPA), designed to address the country’s cybersecurity skills ...More >>
Rakon boosts bank funding to meet increased telco demand
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:35:06 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Dec. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Rakon has added $6 million to its cash working capital facility with ASB Bank, which it says will help meet the increased demands for telecommunications infrastructure. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Brexit & Huawei clusterfudges
Wed, 12 Dec 2018 09:47:07 +1300 | Gordon Campbell
Come December 2019, the West’s social democracies could be gone through quite a few changes at the top. British PM Theresa May might not even make it through to the New Year. In a year’s time Angela Merkel’s shaky coalition will have probably ...More >>
Digger cuts fibre optic cable on Whangārei intersection
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:02:46 +1300 | New Zealand Transport Agency
The NZ Transport Agency says a digger working on the SH1/Tarewa Road intersection upgrade in Whangārei has cut a fibre optic cable, affecting about 1500 customers. The Transport Agency’s Senior Manager Project Delivery, Chris Hunt says the incident ...More >>
Spark awarded customer experience partner at Cisco Summit
Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:34:46 +1300 | Spark NZ
Spark has been awarded Customer Experience Partner of the year at Cisco’s 2018 Partner Summit Global Awards, which took place early November in in Las Vegas, Nevada. More >>
PM's Post-Cab 3/12/18: Fuel Market Study
Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:45:03 +1300 | The Scoop Team
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was joined by Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Kris Faafoi to announce a Commerce Commission market study into the retail fuel market. This will be the first study directed by the government under new legislation.More >>
Public media journalism boosted with new government funding
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 14:01:14 +1300 | NZ On Air
Nine widely diverse journalism projects have now been selected to receive funding support through the new $6 million Joint Innovation Fund, a collaborative approach by NZ On Air and RNZ to commission public media content for New Zealand audiences.More >>
Gordon Campbell: five lingering questions on the Huawei ban
Mon, 3 Dec 2018 11:23:39 +1300 | Gordon Campbell
The ban on Spark using Huawei technology within their planned 5G phone and Internet network continues to raise more questions than answers. If the security concern is that Huawei could possibly install a ‘backdoor’ into this network that only Chinese ...More >>
Commission outlines approach for improving service
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:06:32 +1300 | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has today published a framework paper outlining its approach to implementing new provisions under the Telecommunications Act to improve retail service quality for consumers.More >>
Huawei issues urgent 'please explain' note to NZ govt
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:17:24 +1300 | BusinessDesk
Nov. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Chinese telecommunications equipment provider Huawei says it has had no contact with New Zealand's signals intelligence agency over its decision to stop Spark New Zealand using the company's cellsite technology when it builds ...More >>
