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Dell Technologies has appointed Leanne Buer to the role of New Zealand country manager.

Australia's largest telco Telstra has put pen to paper with the signing of a conditional agreement to take up a 25% equity interest in the US$300 million trans-Pacific Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN).

Telstra is taking up an equity partnership in Southern Cross Cable Networks with an investment that gives it extra capacity in the trans-Pacific subsea cable.

Engineering communications and sound solutions provider Jabra is set to expand its New Zealand operations, with the appointment of Chris Clark as business development manager for the country.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has switched on its long-range Internet of Things network, making it available for commercial use in 60% of the country.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement and regulatory agency, The Commerce Commission, has recommending deferring for two years a decision on whether wholesale voice services provided on copper lines by the country’s largest telco, Spark, should be deregulated.

New Zealand telco Spark has appointed David Chalmers, a former executive with the country’s largest independent TV and radio broadcaster, Mediaworks, as its new chief financial officer.

With regulation of the New Zealand telecommunications industry under scrutiny, the country’s biggest telco, Spark, says ensuring industry players have certainty to continue investing in New Zealand’s digital future should be the main thrust of a review into the Telecommunications Act.

New Zealand telco Spark is confident it is on the right track to future growth despite a 19% dip in annual net profits.