A New Zealand customer has come forward with their Samsung Galaxy Note 7, reporting that the device caught fire.

COMMENT: The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is an unmitigated disaster for the Korean electronics giant, writes Juha Saarinen.

Chorus has handed more of its New Zealand ultrafast broadband network building work to Australia's Visionstream.

COMMENT: If you send anything sensitive, embarrassing, private or otherwise risky stuff, use strong encryption.

Spark is seeking clarification from Yahoo as to whether any of its customers had email searched at the behest of United States intelligence agencies.

COMMENT: Smartphone contracts are complicated and consumers don't understand them.

COMMENT: We need to stop handing criminals and spies easy access to digital weapons of mass destruction.

The Commerce Commission's practice of releasing the companies it receives the most complaints about has been criticised.

Telcos Spark and Vodafone have topped the list as the most complained about companies according to the Commerce Commission. Have you ever had any issues?

There was no queue of Apple fans outside Spark's Queen St store this morning, with robots lining up for pre-order customers instead.

Vodafone earlier pleaded guilty to making false price representations on its mobile 'Red Essentials' plan.

All @xtra.co.nz email accounts will be moved from Yahoo to a New Zealand-based provider.

Simon Moutter fired a shot at rival Sky TV on Twitter when he posted a photo of him packaging up his Sky box to send it back.

Growing revenue in the competitive telecommunications sector is "a big achievement" Vodafone's CEO says.

Skinny Mobile has revamped its mobile offer with a digital makeover 12 months in the making in a bid to retain customers.

Herald investigation: The weather, the skilled-labour shortage, the outsourcing. The Herald examines why Chorus has clocked up a record number of faults.

COMMENT: Vodafone's working hard to avoid being in a "dumb pipe" situation, writes Juha Saarinen.

The massive growth in data usage has seen Spark add additional data to plans at no extra cost.

Manukau City lead the pack with an average 155 gigabytes consumed per household in June.

There is less you may be able to get away with in Thailand if authorities go ahead with a bold new tourist rule.

From Nike to Spark, marketer says his move isn't really such a big leap.

Fairfax is looking to extend its business beyond content provision with a new venture to launch a fibre-only ISP.

Netflix has overtaken YouTube in data usage on three internet providers, showing its popularity in New Zealand.

You've got to be aged under 25 to access Vodafone's new adjustable prepay deals.

New Zealand has more mobile broadband connections than people

The 2degrees mobile network is working again after a nationwide outage tonight, the company has tweeted.

The AOL-Yahoo merger could take place in a wholly unexpected manner - thanks to Verizon, the largest phone carrier in the US.

About 40 households in a remote area of Waikato have been without access to a reliable phone line for weeks.

Telco network company Chorus says it's hunting for 250 new people as it struggles to cope with long delays in fixing faults.

A growing number of people say they are frustrated and annoyed with telecommunications provider Chorus.