Telecommunications (Telco) stories - Page 124

The way consumers shop is changing, with more reaching for their smartphone before or during their retail experience.

Gisborne District Council calls for broadband and mobile blackspot funding to extend coverage in key tourism sites.

The new Huawei P8 is now available at Spark New Zealand stores, with the first 1,000 customers getting a $200 discount.

Spark New Zealand is trialling a shower dock that allows people to take their smartphones with them in the shower.

VMob partners with Microsoft Azure Mobile Engagement to provide full functionality of its personalisation platform to Azure customers.

Ex-Nike senior exec Clive Ormerod joins Spark as the marketing GM, poised to elevate brand and customer experience.

Telecoms providers will generate over $297bn in revenue from global services to enterprise customers by 2020, says Ovum.

InternetNZ is offering community grants to fund projects that support better access and use of the internet in New Zealand.

New Zealand telcos have seen a $350 million decline in retail telecommunications revenue in the last two years with investment up $420 million.

Tuanz is calling on the government to have 'an ambitious vision' for rural connectivity and accept that connectivity is a right, not a want.

Mobile and online messaging traffic will reach 160 trillion per annum by 2019. This is up from 94.2 trillion this year and equals 438bn daily.

Chorus has expressed interest in the government's plans to expand the state-sponsored ultrafast broadband network and rural broadband initiatives.

SIP trunks have been around for a number of years but you could say that New Zealand has been slow to get going with SIP.

Labour condemns the Government's rural broadband initiative, calling it a massive policy failure and criticising a planned additional NZD $150 million spend.

Facebook is working on laser technology that will be able to deliver high speed internet through drones or satellites.

Vodafone is courting families with the launch of some new services aimed to help parents navigate the digital world.

The Commerce Commission offers up slightly reduced proposed wholesale charges to access the Chorus line - and proposes removing backdating.

As of today Jason Paris is the acting CEO of Spark Home, Mobile and Business (HMB). Former CEO Chris Quin’s last day was June 30.

Cisco has announced its acquisition of security firm OpenDNS for USD $635 million to enhance its IoT offerings, set to close in fiscal Q1 2016.

As 50,000 Kiwis demand lower internet costs, the Commerce Commission's new draft on wholesale line charges will reveal whether consumer pleas are heard.