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Broadcast and telecommunications equipment and services provider Magna Systems and Engineering has appointed Heinz Herrmann as its group CEO.

New Zealand telco, Spark, has a new chief with Jason Paris taking up the role of CEO Spark Home, Mobile and Business (HMB) today.

New Zealand telco, Spark,  is up in arms at the high charges for the country’s wholesale broadband prices which it says are pushing up the retail price of the Internet to the detriment of Kiwi consumers.

Spark New Zealand has launched a beta version of its home security product, Morepork, that allows users to control and monitor their homes remotely from their smartphones.

Spark New Zealand is challenging the country’s Commerce Commission to front up to “ordinary internet users” and justify why its proposed wholesale charges for broadband and landlines are “so far out of line” with comparable countries.

Communications provider My Net Fone has acquired the global wholesale voice business of Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI) from carrier Spark New Zealand.

AAPT CEO David Yuile has announced he is leaving the company after four years at the helm and just ahead of the finalisation of the sale of the business by owner Telecom New Zealand to TPG.

Telstra was once Telecom Australia. Now Telecom NZ is changing its name – to Spark.

Telecom New Zealand has announced it will sell its Australian subsidiary AAPT and its PowerTel business for $450 million to ambitious Australian telco TPG Telecom.

Telecom New Zealand has confirmed the widespread speculation that its Australian subsidiary AAPT is for sale.

Telecom New Zealand has announced it will have 4G LTE live on in much of Auckland by October. It intends to extend coverage to Wellington and Christchurch by Christmas.

Telecom New Zealand has announced the official name and the retail pricing of its NBN equivalent – the Ultra Fibre broadband (UFB).

Telecom New Zealand has undertaken a 'strategic review' of the Australian operations of its IT services unit, Gen-i, which will mean a concentration on trans-Tasman customers.

Telecom New Zealand will offer free landline to landline national calls nationwide on Christmas Day, and free Wi-Fi hotspots at popular holiday destinations over the holidays.

Telecom New Zealand has announced reduced international data roaming charges, to take effect from 21 December.

Telecom New Zealand has started large scale trials of 4G LTE technology in Wellington and Auckland.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Telecom NZ's credit rating by one notch, following the structural separation of Telecom NZ's fixed access network business into a separate entity, Chorus, which cleared is final hurdle last week.

Standard & Poor's has downgraded Telecom NZ's credit rating by one notch, following the structural separation of Telecom NZ's fixed access network business into a separate entity, Chorus, which cleared is final hurdle last week.