Chorus has cut a deal with Crown Fibre Holdings to bring forward funding of $178 million - though at a high interest rate.

The Government has thrown its backing - but not its money - behind a mobile phone recycling programme.

More kiwis are making the switch to the super-fast 4G mobile network and as coverage areas increase, how we are using our smart devices is also changing.

Telecommunications company Vocus is buying fibre-line provider FX Networks and says it will become NZ’s third largest network operator if the sale goes through.

Telecom's $20 million name change will happen on August 8 and within months Spark will replace the existing branding at 70 stores, 8000 retailers and on 3000 payphones.

The government has entered a 25 year contract with Hawaiki Cable worth to secure a new international telecommunications cable capable of handling huge data loads.

New Zealand's internet traffic will grow almost threefold by 2018, according to forecasts, mostly driven by a jump in the amount of television, movie and video being watched online.

Traveling to countries like Egypt and Turkey in my 20s it was a given that you would have to bargain to buy something.

A drench gun that receives data via wifi to calculate the exact dosage needed, and a capsule inside a cow that sends data to a smartphone about its health.

Phone companies have revealed the extent of Govt agency spying on their networks, with more than 70 secret wire taps last year in New Zealand alone.

Telecom says more details of its online television service are "close" and will be unveiled before the company changes its name to Spark in August.

Chorus's BBB credit rating was affirmed by Standard & Poor's with a negative outlook that reflects prospects for the network company's 'headroom' within financial covenants to shrink.

Auckland-based Customer Radar aims to turn the traditional "mystery shopper" way of rating company performance on its head.

Telecom has suffered a massive technical fault today, with many of its systems - including its own corporate website - down for most of the day.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were so popular on their 10-day tour of NZ they managed to disrupt telcos in some places.

Telecom Corp, the country's biggest telecommunications company, has trimmed the size of a banking facility, while pushing out its maturity date until 2017.