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Vodafone New Zealand has taken steps to combat cyberbullying that Australian telcos would do well to emulate: it has launched a free service that allows its mobile customers to easily block text and multimedia messages from any mobile number they choose.

Vodafone New Zealand has awarded recently listed Australian wholesale telecommunications services provider Vocus Communications a $NZ11.3m contract to provide all its international data capacity of the next several years.

The New Zealand Government has decided to regulate mobile termination access rates - the prices mobile operators charge other telcos to deliver calls made to mobile numbers on their networks.

REANNZ, the Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand, has abandoned fixed phones, given all 15 staff iPhones and signed a deal with Vodafone NZ covering all its internal telecommunications services.

Launch of new mobile plan by Vodafone NZ with a huge differential between on-net and off-net calling rates has led the NZ Commerce Commission to reverse an earlier decision. It now says that mobile termination rates - the prices mobile operators charge other telcos for delivery of calls to their customers' phones - should be regulated.

Vodafone New Zealand had teamed up with Canadian FTTH specialist, Axia Netmedia - one of the bidders for Australia's cancelled NBN Mark 1 project - to bid for the New Zealand Government's $NZ1.5b ultra-fast broadband network project.

New Zealand's communications and IT minister, Steven Joyce, has knocked back the Commerce Commission's recommendation to accept undertakings from Telecom NZ and Vodafone NZ on mobile service termination in lieu of regulation.