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Chris Barton: Something rotten in our Commerce Commission

Study eases brain cancer fear

New Zealand researchers have found "no consistent increase" in brain cancer during a period of rapidly increasing cellphone use.

Mobile phone outage hits Spark users

Spark calls for Chorus price rethink

Chorus paces rise in sharemarket index

New Zealand shares rose yesterday, paced by Chorus as its first-half earnings met with market expectations. Xero rose to a four-month high as a seller exited the stock.

Chorus profit falls 18pc, narrows UFB build cost

New boss as Telstra eyes north

Australia's largest telco, Telstra, is also pursuing an Asian expansion strategy, and on Friday appointed the man in charge of that expansion to run the entire company.

Spies 'hacked SIM card maker'

British and American spy agencies allegedly hacked into a Dutch company that make SIM cards to obtain encryption keys.

Moutter shrugs off drop

Spark in joint venture with Vocus

Vocus Communications, the Australian fibre network and data centre company, has agreed with Spark New Zealand to form a new construction joint venture, Connect 8.

Kiwis less satisfied with internet providers

Vivid Technologies put into liquidation

The Diary: Heidi Klum wants Auckland to judge her undies

An episode for the upcoming season of Germany's Next Top Model will be filmed in Auckland next week.

'Say it again, Sam' - and create a winner

As writers, actors and directors jostle for favour following the Oscar and Bafta award nominations, scientists have discovered the true measure of a film's worth is not how many gongs it wins, but how many times later film-makers reference it.

Irate users target Vodafone

Hundreds of New Zealand Vodafone customers have condemned a proposal by the telecommunications company to cut local customer services jobs and outsource some of the work to the Philippines.

Vodafone scraps 100 customer care jobs

The Herald has obtained an internal Vodafone document detailing plans to scrap around 100 customer care staff and increase outsourcing to the Philippines.

Juha Saarinen: Roaming overseas

As I wrote last year, it’s been great to have a simple way to travel overseas and use your voice and data plan there for an added $5 a day on Vodafone in many countries.

Vodafone price hike 'shaky ground'

Vodafone is on "shaky ground" in raising its fibre internet prices along with copper-line broadband charges, says InternetNZ.