Spark has joined 2Degrees in offering an unlimited mobile data plan.

Rotorua, Porirua and North Shore feature higher than Wellington and Auckland.

Vodafone, Spark, and Vodafone are pooling together to pitch for rural services contract.

Spark New Zealand says its hostile 80 cents-a-share offer for TeamTalk is final.

The Commerce Commission is looking for any competition issues.

A 2288km fibre optic cable between New Zealand and Australia is officially in service.

NZ policymakers need to start planning for 5G mobile infrastructure, Vodafone CEO says.

TeamTalk shareholders will vote on a plan to sell a controlling stake in Farmside.

Telecommunications giant Huawei plans to invest at least $400m in New Zealand.

This gadget is going to blow the mobile phone market out of the water.

Spark says an independent valuation range for its takeover target lacks credibility.

Sky TV and Vodafone are appealing the Commerce Commission's decision to decline the merger

Huawei Technologies will spend $400m on R&D in NZ over the next five years.

KiwiSaver is a fantastic long-term superannuation scheme but it has one major drawback: limited domestic investment opportunities.

COMMENT: Mobile plans with data caps won't make use of new 4.5G networks, Juha Saarinen writes.

The ComCom wants to keep closer tabs on congestion over the country's copper network.

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.

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.

The re-released 3310 has a month-long battery and its popular game snake.

Telco 2Degrees has extended free calls and texts as it continues to grapple with a big technical gremlin.

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.