Chorus joins ASX200, bringing to 8 the number of NZX-listed Kiwi firms in Aussie benchmark

COMMENT: The news that Australia is getting a new telco has upset existing players.

Spark is dumping the public telephone network and replacing it with an IP-based network.

The average user chewed through the equivalent data of two high-definition movies.

This new app could revolutionise how people top up their phones.

Govt's UFB programme put too many customers in play for Sky, Voda merger says ComCom.

TeamTalk shareholders back a deal to sell a controlling stake in Farmside.

COMMENT: Please, telcos: confusion as a marketing tool doesn't work. Keep it simple.

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

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.

COMMENT: The Shareholders' Association is on the warpath.

TeamTalk to sell controlling stake in Farmside to Vodafone as Spark circles.

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

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.

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