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Universal Communications Group (UCG) announced that it has been awarded a new seven-year contract to deliver all Chorus maintenance, build and provisioning works in Auckland and the Greater Auckland outer region, as well as a three year contract for all fibre provisioning works for the entire North Island of New Zealand.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency and regulator The Commerce Commission has launched an online survey aimed at helping telecommunications stakeholders have their say on the next phase of regulation for fibre service providers.

New Zealand’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, has released draft guidance to help the telecommunications industry understand its approach to monitoring and enforcing obligations on telco Chorus - and other local fibre companies (LFCs) - to allow retailers access to unbundled fibre services with acceptable terms and prices.

New Zealand’s competition regulator The Commerce Commission has released a draft decision on a new regulatory regime for the country’s fibre broadband networks, requiring the companies to publish performance measures, such as profits, quality of service, and expenditure.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, the Commerce Commission, has released a framework paper outlining its approach to implementing new provisions under the Telecommunications Act to improve retail service quality for consumers.

New Zealand's competition enforcement and regulatory agency, the Commerce Commission, is undertaking public consultations on the consumer protections and proposed process that will regulate the changeover from copper to fibre on the county’s broadband network.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, is undertaking industry and public consultation on its proposed implementation of a new regulatory regime for fibre broadband networks.

New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider Chorus has deployed Nokia's VDSL2 vectoring technology aimed at delivering improved broadband access to users across the country.

Australian battery company Redflow has appointed an experienced telecommunications executive, Tim Harris, as its new chief executive, to lead the company through its next stage of growth and commercialisation.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has hit out at a major competitor over suggestions that 5G mobile services in the country should be rolled out by a monopoly network rather than competing companies.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency wants the largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, to upgrade its capacity as needs grow so that telcos and consumers have best use of the capacity of copper lines.

Nokia has inked a three-year renewal of its managed services agreement with Chorus, New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure company.

New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, is offering a free upgrade for 85,000 residential fibre broadband customers on its entry-level 30Mbps plan, increasing it to 50Mbps.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark and telecommunications infrastructure provider Chorus are to pilot a process aimed at making it easier for homeowners to install fibre for their broadband service.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency, The Commerce Commission, has made a draft decision that the country’s largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, should upgrade its capacity as needs grow so that retail telecommunications companies and consumers can continue to make best use of the capacity of copper lines.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has set out on a major programme to upgrade its broadband networks across the country and move as "many as possible" of its customers off old copper networks and onto newer technologies like fibre and wireless broadband.

Four telcos — Spark, Chorus, Vodafone and 2Degrees Mobile — will pay the lions’ share of the NZ$50 million Telecommunications Development Levy (TDL) for 2015/16 proposed by New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency, The Commerce Commission.

Telecommunications services provider Visionstream has secured a four-year contract with New Zealand's largest telecommunications infrastructure provider, Chorus, to connect more Chorus’ customers to the country’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network.