Technology columnist Chris Barton comments on the problems with the Harmful Digital Communications Bill.

On Thursday entertainment and television players Spark, MediaWorks, Sky and TVNZ fired a warning shot to Slingshot, Orcon and Bypass Network Services.

The Commerce Commission is to review the terms under which Chorus offers unbundled bitstream access (UBA) to retail telecommunications companies.

Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa have agreed to acquire Telefonica's O2 unit in the UK as the billionaire continues his efforts to remake the conglomerate.

2degrees' acquisition of internet service provider Snap allows the company to get into the rapidly growing movie and TV content business.

Mobile brand 2Degrees has called a media briefing for this morning to "announce a major development regarding the future of the business."

A top Google exec has confirmed that the search giant wants to start offering wireless service.

Kordia Group, the broadcasting and telecommunications network operator, returned to a profit in the first half on an improved performance at its Australian business.

Spark has agreed to sell its Telecom Rentals business for $106 million to Australian financial services company FlexiGroup.

An Auckland woman has slammed Spark for a “threatening” voicemail message which warned her that her overdue phone bill could affect her ability to call 111.

The top speakers at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona are two Americans who symbolise pressing threats for Europe's carriers.

New Zealand researchers have found "no consistent increase" in brain cancer during a period of rapidly increasing cellphone use.

Australia's largest telco, Telstra, is also pursuing an Asian expansion strategy, and on Friday appointed the man in charge of that expansion to run the entire company.

British and American spy agencies allegedly hacked into a Dutch company that make SIM cards to obtain encryption keys.

A new consumer behaviour survey backs other research that there is a growth of "digital dependency" in New Zealand, according to a leading academic.

Broker Forsyth Barr is tipping a drop in profit at Spark when the NZX's biggest listed company reports its half-year result tomorrow.

Yesterday's five-hour long service outage meant smart phones were useless for customers in many parts of the North Island.

Parallel to the exponential growth in technology is the growth of the internet of everything, or put simply, the connectivity of all devices to the internet.

First it conquered search. Then it was online video and advertising. Now Google is turning its attention toward telecommunications.

Vocus Communications, the Australian fibre network and data centre company, has agreed with Spark New Zealand to form a new construction joint venture, Connect 8.