ComCom's 2026 work programme focuses on fibre regulation, deregulation, retail service quality and a significant consumer protection agenda.

Chorus posts a first half profit as copper retirement accelerates. Comparing Spark and Chorus post demerger performance. 2degrees ground station spooks inner city residents.

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 ...

Cyclone Gabrielle left parts of the North Island without phone and data coverage. While network gaps remain in pockets, the clean up is now well under way and telcos are revisiting their resiliency ...

Fibre is the dominant way New Zealanders connect to the world. The technology uses light travelling through strands of glass. It is faster, offers greater bandwidth and is more reliable than the ...

The Chatham Islands, one of the most remote communities in New Zealand, is now connected to the rest of the world. A new 7.5 metre satellite dish and five mobile towers mean Chatham Islanders now have ...

The 2001 Telecommunications Act and its later amendments set the ground rules for industry regulation. Its goal is to promote competition between telcos so customers get the benefits of increased ...

Fibre passes around 87 percent of New Zealand households, most of them in urban areas. The remaining 13 percent are rural, but this is an arbitrary distinction. This group includes everything from ...

The Commerce Commission is concerned the Telecommunications Disputes Resolution Scheme is still not fully independent of industry funding and control. In his foreword to a report on the 2024 review of ...

Recent sabotage and theft at New Zealand cell towers highlight risks to connectivity. One NZ adds eight new sites and TCF calls for a rethink of the telecommunications development levy. Cell tower ...

One New Zealand has a three-year deal with Australia’s Fastter, a business packaging MVNOs for brands looking for quick entry into the mobile market. To customers, MVNOs or Mobile Virtual Network ...

Looked at from one perspective SpaceX’s Starlink could be the missing piece of New Zealand’s rural broadband jigsaw puzzle. The Commerce Commission thinks it is. This week it said its “latest ...