Spark, formerly Telecom NZ, claims momentum
Rebranded telco says focus on the customer is delivering results in the second half of its financial year.
Rebranded telco says focus on the customer is delivering results in the second half of its financial year.
NZ Post CFO Mark Yeoman claims an Asia-Pacific first with a network-as-a-service roll-out.
The second stage of Spark's NZ$70 million-per-year re-engineering program ended with data cutover on the weekend.
Declining calling and access revenue is only partially offset by growing mobile and IT services sales for New Zealand telco.
New Zealand network operator posts a flat result, but a regulated reduction in the prices it can charge for copper broadband services looms in December.
Shift to naked broadband, IP services and aggressive price competition continue to take their toll.
After 27 years, the now separated retail arm of the old Telecom assumes a new identity along with many of its business units.
Converged technologies could, and arguably should, lead to converged regulation.
Australian-listed telecommunications provider M2 will buy New Zealand's third-largest internet service provider.
20-year veteran Chris Quin parts company with New Zealand's largest telecommunications retailer.