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• Spark fixed wireless broadband garners 100,000 customers

  Spark says it now has 100,000 customers on its fixed wireless broadband service, launched in April 2016 and delivered using its cellular network.

• Ericsson sees opportunities for local mobile app developers

  Ericsson says there is an opportunity for smartphone application developers in New Zealand because only 15 percent of the top 100 smartphone apps used by New Zealanders are locally developed.

• New Zealand #2 for mobile broadband data uptake

  New Zealand has the second highest per capita penetration of data-only mobile broadband subscriptions among OECD members, at 79.6 per 100 people, according to new figures released by the OECD.

• Free Public Wi-Fi to Get Faster to Meet Mobile Demands

  In response to the soaring use of smartphones, tablets and other data-hungry wireless devices in public mobile broadband hotspots such as airports and convention centers, government regulators have voted in favor of a proposal to increase the capacity of free public Wi-Fi.

• ACMA issues second paper on 803-960 MHz band

  Seeking to maximise the value of 800 MHz spectrum for mobile broadband, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) today released a second discussion paper about how to replan the 803-960 MHz band.

• Analysts: Thodey has major work ahead to turn Telstra around

  Following the release of Telstra’s half year results analysts agree the telco's CEO David Thodey has some major work to do to turn the ailing company around.

• Big names flock to HSPA mobile broadband

  Sixteen big name mobile operators and PC makers have publicly backed the use of HSPA embedded in notebooks, after promising to deliver devices containing the mobile broadband technology.

• Vendors demo fast mobile broadband of the future

  A “rolling thunder” campaign by telco equipment vendors to generate media and public interest around the next generation of mobile broadband, Long Term Evolution (LTE) — or, as it’s now known, Systems Architecture Evolution (SAE) — has reached New Zealand.