Bill Bennett

Freelance journalist.

Auckland-based Bill Bennett writes technology and business stories that are directly relevant to New Zealand readers.

His emphasis is on telecommunications, but he also covers other aspects of technology and business. You can find his features in the New Zealand Herald and hear him regularly on RNZ Nine to Noon and the NZ Tech Podcast.

Bennett's The Download Weekly newsletter is published every Friday. You can sign up for it here. If you want to support his work, you can make a donation to his PressPatron account.

Contact Bill Bennett

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Download Weekly: Big three dominate telecoms sector

Friday, 4 July 2025, 6:15 pm | Bill Bennett

The Commerce Commission’s 2024 Telecommunications Monitoring Report highlights market concentration. N4L's school WiFi upgrade progress. TCF publishes emergency fact sheet. More >>

Comcom warns 2degrees over satellite marketing

Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 1:46 pm | Bill Bennett

Download Weekly May 30 2025. The Commerce Commission warns 2degrees over satellite claims; Tait bids for Vital; the TCF introduces a code to support customers needing priority services; Spark recycles laptops for schools; Xero adds iPhone tap payments More >>

Australian warship takes rural fixed wireless broadband offline

Monday, 9 June 2025, 1:54 pm | Bill Bennett

Australian warship disrupts wireless networks, Spark warns cloud adoption is stalling, Chorus updates its outage map, and 2degrees teams with Datacom. Plus: Freeview adds HD, and telcos react to proposed right-to-repair laws. More >>

Satellite TXT expands, how Egmont Village got a fibre network

Friday, 11 April 2025, 8:27 pm | Bill Bennett

This week: One NZ extends Satellite Txt to prepaid customers. In Taranaki, Primo is wiring Egmont Village with underground fibre and city-style pricing. Early wildfire detection, media law reform, and smarter traffic in Auckland. More >>

2degrees fined $325,000 for misleading ‘free’ Aussie roaming claim

Friday, 4 April 2025, 8:02 pm | Bill Bennett

This week's newsletter covers Amazon’s satellite launch, the future of 24-30 GHz spectrum. Plus, Motorola’s new budget phones, the decline of folding phones and 2degrees’ $325,000 fine. More >>

Comcom revisits fibre rules as competition intensifies

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:19 am | Bill Bennett

The Commerce Commission kicks off a review of fibre broadband regulations to keep pace with market changes, including growing competition from wireless and satellite. Meanwhile, mobile termination rates could be deregulated after 14 years, and Apple ... More >>

Download Weekly Extra: InternetNZ disrupted

Friday, 28 March 2025, 11:15 am | Bill Bennett

Free Speech Union moves threaten to derail InternetNZ’s planned constitution update. This has implications for the non-profit’s main role managing the .nz domain registry and its other work. More >>

Apple iPad Air M3: best tablet for creators in 2025

Thursday, 27 March 2025, 2:09 pm | Bill Bennett

Sitting between the iPad and the iPad Pro, the iPad Air balances price and performance. It’s 2025’s best tablet if you want to do more than basic browsing, viewing and listening but don’t need high-end performance. This post examines the iPad Air ... More >>

Gilbertson wants action on barriers to churn

Friday, 21 March 2025, 6:08 pm | Bill Bennett

The Commerce Commission thinks it can be too hard to switch between mobile or broadband companies and that means you may be paying too much. Also in today's newsletter... NZers love working from home and it is effective, but bosses are cracking down on ... More >>