New Zealand's mobile phone sector is performing well on an international basis, with competitive pricing and good mobile coverage, according to a report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.

Spark New Zealand has got closer to Chinese telecommunications vendor Huawei Technologies in an expanded deal.

Mobile phone users are increasingly turning to messaging apps and shunning traditional calling and texting.

New Zealand is on the edge of a smartphone revolution being led from an epicentre in Asia.

New Zealand shares rose as Fisher & Paykel Healthcare advanced to a record after lifting its annual profit guidance. Xero fell as its first-half results showed a slower pace of growth.

Spark is "confident" its internet-based television service Lightbox has enough to offer to see off any challenge from the US streaming giant.

New York has unveiled the most ambitious plan yet for the payphone of the future offering WiFi connections, free calls and more.

Herald tech blogger Juha Saarinen looks at Spark's new roaming plans and gets his hands on an iMac Retina 5K monitor.

Creditors have accepted a 20c-in-the-dollar proposal from one of Orcon’s former owners but a court has yet to approve the deal.

NZ’s chief censor is mulling charges against Slingshot and Orcon, which both give customers access to websites with movies that could be either unclassified or banned.

An analyst says further job cuts in the telco sector will occur in coming months as Spark looks to cut staff in its technical department.

Having a mobile phone account in New Zealand has become quite a bit less of a hassle than it was just a few years ago.

Spark confirmed today that it would be cutting jobs as rival Vodafone New Zealand announced it would shed a significant number of staff before March.

Spark NZ yesterday briefly reclaimed the top spot as the most valuable company on the NZX, a position it once firmly held in its previous incarnation as Telecom.

Check out a snapshot of some of the stellar performers on the New Zealand sharemarket this year, as it surged ahead breaking new records.

New Zealand shares gained for a third day yesterday, paced by Contact Energy and TrustPower, as investors spooked by recent volatility sought high-yield stocks. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare rose to a record.

Chorus has decided not to anger its customers, and has pulled the proposals that could have led to slower broadband performance for everyone.

Customers who pre-ordered Apple's latest model iPhone are angry at being kept waiting - and one says he was offered a Samsung Galaxy as an alternative.

Chorus is seeing growth in its high-speed fixed line connections as it continues to roll out the bulk of the govt-sponsored ultrafast broadband fibre network.

Vodafone NZ says it is not planning major job cuts after internal speculation that the telecommunications giant was looking at a significant management reduction.

One of the former owners of internet company Orcon who has debts of $3.57m has avoided bankruptcy and will attempt to appease creditors with a $343,000 deal.

If you haven’t changed your passwords for a while, or use the same one across several services, now’s a good time to fix that, writes Juha Saarinen.

Was it really NZ celebrity porn hunters that crashed Spark on the weekend or something else?

A frenzy over fake or leaked nude celebrity photos possibly sparked this weekend’s disastrous internet meltdown.

Public relations business needs a little PR itself, as Dirty Politics raises questions about industry practices.

Chorus' proposed changes to wholesale broadband services are likely to breach "good faith" terms set by the Commerce Commission, according to a legal opinion obtained by the regulator.