Telecom's XT network failed because the network and supporting operations were not ready to manage the levels of traffic experienced.

An independent review into Telecom's XT mobile network has found it grew too big, too quickly.

Telecom's profits for three months to the end of March have fallen 38 per cent from $159m to $97m.

The Auckland-based telco will report a 47 percent decline in profit and more downbeat news could still come, according to analyst Guy Hallwright.

Police have no evidence that a Russian hacker who posed as a Kiwi girl to sell Facebook login information has ever been to NZ.

A team of students has developed a clever method of overcoming the lack of internet connectivity in developing countries.

A married pharmacist faces a fine and could be struck off for sending inappropriate text messages to the three hairdressers.

Mobile phone users are being warned about a scam that tells people they have won thousands and fish for bank details via text message.

Yellow Pages Group chief executive Bruce Cotterill is playing down prospects of a sale as a committee of bankers ponders the future of the company.

Telecom says rumours of up to 2000 people losing their jobs at the company are 'rubbish'.

TelstraClear call centre staff are given time off at work to play rock, paper, scissors and make paper aeroplanes.

Vodafone NZ's market share sank below 50 per cent last year as new kid on the block 2degrees mobile entered the market.