Supply of old-style net addresses is fast running out - but help is at hand.

The office of the Privacy Commissioner has cautioned businesses against using confidentiality deals as "window dressing" as it probes a major security breach which allowed a rival access to Telecom customer details.

The former England soccer star is the latest celebrity to sue the News of the World newspaper.

The Privacy Commissioner is to investigate a security breach that has revealed personal details of every Telecom customer.

A company planning to provide New Zealand with a new connection to faster internet has secured important links with US investors.

Vodafone in Australia has denied that customers' personal details were made publicly available on the internet.

BT was yesterday accused of undermining one of the founding principles of the internet - that of "net neutrality" - by creating a two-tier system which would allow content providers to charge for a faster video delivery service.

Complaints against the telecommunications industry have more than trebled in the last three years, with an increasing number made about non-members, giving rise to calls for the scheme to be made compulsory.

Phone and internet company Slingshot has overhauled its cold-calling approach.

Chief Petty Officer Steve Clarke received the best Christmas gift ever yesterday: Watching his children unwrap their presents.

The Commerce Commission has called for lower wholesale voice and text pricing to encourage competition in NZ's cellular market.

Telecom's entire executive team has cut up its corporate credit cards, as the company starts an efficiency drive.

Telecom won't face regulatory intervention over its premium copper-based VDSL2 broadband service which guarantees speeds of 15Mb/s up, 5Mb/s down.

Text messages and the internet may be used to contact emergency services in the future following a Government review of the 111 service.

'I love you I'll see you in heaven,' a 15-year-old girl wrote in a text message to her married, 27-year-old lover.

The threat of regulation was enough for 2degrees to nail a commercial national roaming deal with rival Vodafone, according to the new mobile player.