Telecommunications (Telco) stories - Page 107

Spark will credit customers back for any landline and mobile calls and texts to France in the wake of Friday's Paris attacks.

​Spark Digital, Vodafone and Datacom are among the 12 companies appointed to the New Zealand Government telecommunications-as-a-service supply panel.

M2 unveils NBN Connect, easing high entry costs for new service providers and broadening consumer options in the broadband market.

Australian managers are spending 36% of their time on manual administrative tasks with companies failing to harness technology to accelerate work.

5G R&D and trial investments will account for nearly $5 billion by 2020, following a CAGR of nearly 40%, according to new research.

Spark is upping its play in the music space, partnering with organisers and promoters for Auckland’s newest music festival, Auckland City Limits.

Whanganui has been named a Smart21 Community putting the city in the running for the global Intelligent Community of the Year award.

Next July a major ICT conference will take place in Wellington. Known as ITx, the event will bring together 12 tech-related conferences and bodies.

Ovum forecasts there will be 962.3 million fixed broadband subscriptions globally by the year 2020 which will represent a 43.5% household penetration.

Managing Internet access at schools is a very hard job. Linewize's cloud-managed firewall which doesn’t merely block all content that’s nominally off-topic.

Labour Party criticizes government's rural broadband plans, claiming cable between Wairoa and Tuai serves only one company.

There is a direct correlation between investments into education and a country’s prosperity, according to Transparency Market Research.

Spark has appointed a chief giving officer, as the company looks to move the management of the Givealittle foundation within Spark.

The Labour Party says Minister Amy Adams is currently trying to contain the fallout from the Government’s $300 million rural broadband scheme.

Spark, Chorus and Vodafone will pay almost 90% of the contributions towards the 50 million Telecommunications Development Levy for 2014/15.

Centrify enhances Android for Work with Google, boosting mobile security via identity management, SSO, and MFA across services.

The fourth annual MobileTech conference will take place in March next year and focus on innovative productivity tools for the rural sector.

Dunedin startup companies relying on UFB are being urged to apply for funding made possible by the city’s Gigatown win.

Labour criticizes the Govt's flawed rural broadband scheme, as regions struggle with dismal internet access, stifling growth.

Vodafone ramps up 4G speeds in New Zealand, introducing Carrier Aggregation tech for up to 56% faster downloads.