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One NZ’s Starlink coverage moves closer as testing beckons. One New Zealand says it is about to start testing its satellite to mobile service that will give customers connectivity in areas not currently served by its tower network.. The carrier says Starlink parent company SpaceX has obtained the permission to start testing.

Jun 10, 2022 · Aotearoa’s Digital Priorities in 2022, a report from Tuanz, sponsored and promoted by Vodafone, suggests New Zealand is at a “tipping point” and “slipping behind the world on key measures of digital economic performance”. The report pulls on data from the Portulans Institute Network Readiness Index which benchmarks and ranks nations on a …

Low earth orbit satellites are making waves in rural New Zealand. In its 2024 Telecommunications Monitoring Report the Commerce Commission focused on the gaps remaining between rural and urban parts of the nation. While rural users continue to pay more and get less back, the arrival of SpaceX’s Starlink has reset competition in these areas.

Communications minister Simon Bridges says by 2025 99 percent of New Zealanders will be able to download at 50 megabits per second. The remaining one percent will get downloads of at least 10 mbps. Bridges was speaking at the 2017 Tuanz Rural Broadband Symposium in Wellington. His keynote speech reviewed

Ookla’s regular Speedtest Global Index shows New Zealand fixed line broadband speeds are now falling relative to speeds in other nations. The index for December 2024 shows New Zealand ranked 29 in the world for fixed line broadband speeds. In September 2023, New Zealand ranked 12. In December, the ...

Jun 16, 2017 · NZ’s UFB rollout is 75% complete, with 1.1M homes able to connect. Chorus adds one fibre connection per minute as demand for fast broadband grows

Tuanz report a manifesto for rural telecommunications. A report published by Tuanz following this year’s Rural Connectivity Symposium calls on the government to treat high quality communications as a core utility and make it a priority.

ComCom passes on fibre deregulation; for now. Telecommunications Commissioner, Tristan Gilbertson is reluctant for the Commerce Commission telecoms team to investigate fibre deregulation at this time.. He says we are just three years into the new regulatory regime and there is “not enough competitive constraint on fibre for there to be any serious question of deregulation at this time”.

5 days ago · 700k New Zealand fibre users will get a substantial speed bump this year at no extra cost. Tū Ātea uses 5G network slicing for CentrePort contract. Tuanz broadens the scope of its rural symposium Wellington's CentrePort to get New Zealand's first private 5G network. From June customers on the ...