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 ...

Satellite-to-mobile phone text services from any part of New Zealand could be months away. 2degrees recently conducted successful trials of the technology with satellite operator Lynk in a paddock ...

The Commerce Commission says New Zealand’s widespread adoption of low earth orbit satellites in country areas has reset rural broadband competition. Much of the focus of the ComCom’s 2024 ...

Starlink passed the 4 million customer milestone at the end of September. SpaceX’s low earth orbit satellite broadband network added a million customers or 33 percent in around 4 months. In December ...

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 ...

2degrees shows revenue and market share growth despite loss. Spark rolls out MVNO-as-a-service. Southern Cross advances its Tasman Express cable project. 2degrees reported a net loss before tax of $22 ...

Kordia has pulled the plug on the joint venture it formed with Tait Communications to build the Next Generation Critical Communications network. The move leaves Christchurch-based Tait holding the ...

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 ...

The Commerce Commission has issued a draft recommendation to remove the access regulations governing Chorus’ copper network in areas beyond the reach of the UFB fibre network. For years copper enjoyed ...

One New Zealand says its engineers upgraded 21 mobile network sites in October. The works include nine new sites and 5G expansion improvements at a further 12 sites. This brings the total for 2025 to ...

Primo managing director Matthew Harrison says a visiting Australian warship took a number of his company’s fixed wireless broadband access points offline as it passed down the Taranaki coast. In a ...