Spark chief financial officer David Chalmers says it won't be increasing its $22.7 million offer for TeamTalk.

Spark New Zealand has confirmed its $22.7 million takeover offer for network minnow TeamTalk.

Adam Thomson started tweeting when his call reached the one hour mark, asking if anyone had broken that record.

Mavis Mullins has risen to prominence from early roots in Paewai shearing firm.

COMMENT: This is an old fashioned tale of ultra-fast unlimited fibre broadband heartbreak, Matt Heath writes.

The Auckland Volcanic Field will "almost certainly" erupt again, and a swarm of earthquakes will be the first signal of a catastrophe, say scientists.

Herald science writer Jamie Morton presents weird science facts.

Some 50,000 Slingshot customers will be offered power to go along with their broadband this month as the company branches into new

Boyle, known as Midge or Big Bird to his friends, previously co-owned the Warriors league team with Graham Lowe.

2degrees is offering customers free calling and texting to say "sorry" for a fault causing widespread frustration.

Government has agreed to changes to an overhaul of the spy agencies legislation.

Sky TV boss John Fellet says the failure of his company's plan to merge with Vodafone does not impact on his future.

COMMENT: Why should taxpayers own a commercial broadcasting company that offers unexciting returns, John Drinnan writes.

John Fellet says Sky Television will now dust off its "plan B" after the Commerce Commission rejected its proposed merger with Vodafone.

The Commerce Commission said the merged entity could have leveraged Sky Sport to reduce competition.

Sky TV's shares have been hammered with investors wiping $293 million off the value.

Vocus' New Zealand earnings soared in the latter half of 2016 as the ASX-listed telco benefited from the addition of CallPlus.

Mark Ratcliffe says he has achieved more than he dreamed was possible as chief executive of Chorus and that he is leaving the telecommunications

Vodafone and Sky are due to discover in days whether they will be allowed to join forces and create a formidable pay TV and telco provider.

New Zealanders holding out for the cheapest broadband they can find is forcing Spark NZ to compete more aggressively on price.

Spark is considering its options after Sky said they won't delay a planned merger for appeals to go ahead.

Chief executive Simon Moutter said the investment in call centre resources had cut call waiting times, but that "there is much work still to be done".

The classic mobile phone was renowned for being indestructible and having a seemingly endless battery life.

The highest usage period of the day is between 8pm and 10:30pm, but one day in December saw more people online using data than any other.

Telecommunications network operator Chorus is set to get regulatory relief for its copper network under new rules governing prices

A man who admitted saying, "you spy, you die" during a phone call to the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has been convicted.

Spark wants to integrate TeamTalk's services into the larger group, cutting costs by stripping out any duplication and reviewing the business.

About a third of people who have switched to ultra-fast broadband have encountered problems with the installation, Consumer NZ research has found.

COMMENT: Spark is standing by Lightbox amid speculation that it has also signed a deal with Netflix, writes John Drinnan.

A fault which saw several Jetstar airport check-ins go down this afternoon has been fixed.