Tiny, powerful and pricey—the Oura Ring 4 tracks sleep, fitness and stress without a bulky watch. But skin reaction can be a real risk for some users.

Consumer NZ says Spark and 2degrees have reduced mobile billing transparency, making it harder for customers to compare plans ...

Recent sabotage and theft at New Zealand cell towers highlight risks to connectivity. One NZ adds eight new sites and TCF ...

The Commerce Commission says New Zealand’s widespread adoption of low earth orbit satellites in country areas has reset rural broadband competition. Much of the focus of the ComCom’s 2024 ...

The latest stats from APNIC, the Asia-Pacific regional Internet address registry, estimates Starlink has 85k New Zealand users. That’s a shade under 2 per cent of the total market. SpaceX has achieved ...

Leo satellite broadband has been popular with New Zealanders in remote areas since it first arrived four years ago. A year ago Download Weekly reported: “New Zealand has the highest number of ...

Australian private equity firm Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has purchased 75 percent of Spark’s data centre business. The transaction is made up of $486 million in cash and an additional $98 million ...

Research from Kordia’s Business Cyber Security Report 2025 shows that nearly 60% of New Zealand businesses were hit by cyber-attacks in the past year, AI-powered threats and ransomware payments are ...

The Commerce Commission has given Chorus the green light to invest $1.7 billion over the next four years after cutting $172 million from the fibre company’s submitted plan. It says it disallowed ...

Telecommunications Commissioner, Tristan Gilbertson says the industry responded positively to the recently updated Broadband Marketing Guidelines. The guidelines have been refreshed to address ...

Spark has downgraded its 2025 guidance and plans to sell its remaining 17 percent stake in Connexa, saying the mobile tower business is ‘non-core’. A sale may be challenging as according to a report ...

If you think wireless latency is bad, wait until you try satellite. Patrick Smellie writes for BusinessDesk: The Pacific Islands, remote parts of rural New Zealand and poor but populous parts of ...