Dark fibre backbone infrastructure will be a significant component of New Zealand's planned $1.5 billion national broadband network, the country's Communications Minister Steven Joyce said yesterday. ...

The New Zealand Commerce Commission (ComCom) has released a draft decision [PDF] on the value of Chorus' fibre network for regulatory purposes, pricing the network at NZ$5.4 billion. Under the ...

Telecom is calling for more national consistency on the products offered by the fibre companies to avoid what it calls a “fibre tangle”. “We applaud the local fibre companies (LFCs) for their ...

New Zealand’s competition regulator, The Commerce Commission, has released draft guidance to help the telecommunications industry understand its approach to monitoring and enforcing obligations on ...

Nearly 600,000 New Zealand homes and businesses have high-speed fibre-optic Internet connections, a 54 per cent increase from 2017, according to findings from Stats NZ. “Through Ultra-Fast Broadband ...

Chorus has returned to profit, posting a net gain of $15 million for the six months ended December 2025. That compares with a loss of $5 million a year earlier. The New Zealand fibre network operator ...

IDC says fibre penetration in New Zealand will hit 50 percent by 2020. The technology analyst firm released its latest research paper titled “When will fibre take off in New Zealand?”, which is the ...

Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest ...