Thrifty customers get portable internet option
Thrifty Car Rental customers can now buy a 3G device to provide WiFi connectivity on the move while travelling around the country.
Thrifty Car Rental customers can now buy a 3G device to provide WiFi connectivity on the move while travelling around the country.
Mobile retail revenues grew to $2.38 billion in the 2011/12 year, according to the Commerce Commission's 2012 telecommunications annual monitoring report released today.
Telecom has chosen Huawei to build its 4G/LTE network, which is due to go live in October.
Vodafone has launched a 4G mobile network which is initially available in about 30 percent of Auckland but will be extended to cover more of Auckland and parts of Christchurch and Wellington later this year.
The government will auction 700MHz spectrum in the third quarter of this year, ICT Minister Amy Adams has announced today.
Telecom has announced it will review the email service it provides to its broadband customers following "a series of issues which have impacted negatively on the YahooXtra service over the past year".
The local IT services market grew 4.4 percent year-on-year for the first six months of 2012, reaching NZ$1.7 billion, reports IDC.
IDC says fibre penetration in New Zealand will hit 50 percent by 2020.
Unauthorised data collected from New Zealand wi-fi networks by Google Street View cars have finally been destroyed, the Privacy Commissioner has confirmed.
IT research firm IDC New Zealand has appointed former Telecom strategic alliances manager Adam Dodds to the role of research manager, IT services.
A Commerce Commission report on New Zealand's unbundled copper local loop (UCLL) and unbundled bitstream access (UBA) has found that increased competition in backhaul exchanges means they can now be deregulated.
The government has announced it is investing $92 million over six years towards funding hi-tech research at 31 universities, Crown Research Institutes (CRI) and private companies as part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's second 2012 science investment round.
A new Pacific submarine fibre optic cable is being proposed by a company called Hawaiki Submarine Cable that would link New Zealand and Australia with several Pacific islands by the end of 2014.
North Shore District Court Judge David Harvey has stepped down from the Megaupload extradition case after his comments suggesting that "the US is the enemy" were widely reported.
Auckland High Court has ordered the United States government to "immediately commence preparation" to supply Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants with a copy of data held on seized Megaupload servers.