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Spark New Zealand
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As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. Spark provides mobile, broadband and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
Spark New Zealand - Latest News [Page 14]
Spark outlines upgrade of NZ’s voice communications
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 12:01 pm | Spark NZ
Voice communications in New Zealand is in for a massive upgrade with Spark New Zealand announcing this morning it is switching from the ageing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to a next generation IP-based network. More >>
Spark Plugs in Wellington City
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 9:59 am | Spark
Spark and Wellington City Council partnering to extend Spark Plugs – electric vehicle charging in Spark phone boxes More >>
Spark’s offer to acquire TeamTalk has now lapsed
Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 12:33 pm | Spark NZ
Spark’s offer to acquire TeamTalk has now lapsed Spark New Zealand has noted the shareholder vote at today’s TeamTalk special shareholder meeting to approve the sale of a 70% shareholding in Farmside. As previously advised, Spark New Zealand ... More >>
Spark says ‘ni hao’ to WeChat
Friday, 7 April 2017, 3:06 pm | Spark
Download images here: screen shots, language flags, One World centre Download raw video footage here, featuring Knight Hou, Manager Emerging Markets, Spark More >>
Spark and Skinny to launch ‘Freedom’ mobile plans
Thursday, 6 April 2017, 2:29 pm | Spark NZ
Spark and Skinny are launching mobile plans that allow customers to use their mobiles without restriction by providing data without a cap, unlimited voice calling and unlimited texting. From today, Spark and Skinny Direct customers can register for ... More >>
Spark affirms its 80 cent offer price for TeamTalk
Tuesday, 4 April 2017, 9:29 am | Spark
Spark New Zealand is today affirming that: · Its offer price for 100% of TeamTalk’s ordinary shares remains at 80 cents per share. This price is full and final for this offer; More >>
Spark moves Genesis Energy into the cloud
Wednesday, 29 March 2017, 10:28 am | Spark NZ
Genesis Energy is now running its business from the cloud, after this month completing a large-scale migration of its IT infrastructure to Spark’s Revera Cloud platform. More >>
Ōtira Village gets much needed coverage
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 2:56 pm | Spark NZ
Ōtira Village gets much needed coverage Spark has switched on a metro cell site at Ōtira Village, bringing much needed mobile coverage to the West Coast side of State Highway 73. More >>
Spark NZ responds to TeamTalk target company statement
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 12:06 pm | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand responded to TeamTalk's target company statement and independent adviser's report, which was released today. More >>
90% 4G coverage target reached
Thursday, 16 March 2017, 12:54 pm | Spark NZ
Spark has welcomed news today from Communications Minister Simon Bridges that the target of ninety per cent of New Zealanders having access to 4G has been reached ahead of schedule, and the company is already taking the first steps towards the ... More >>
Spark launches formal takeover offer to TeamTalk
Thursday, 9 March 2017, 10:12 am | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand confirmed today it is making a formal offer to TeamTalk shareholders to acquire 100% of their TeamTalk shares at a price of NZ$0.80 per share. More >>
Spark to establish a new office in Christchurch CBD
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 12:35 pm | Spark NZ
Spark today announced it will be returning to the heart of Christchurch’s CBD in a new high-profile office to be built in Cathedral Square. More >>
Academic, design and business experts to share tricks
Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 2:10 pm | Spark NZ
Four live events, exploring how to win new business from academic, design and commercial perspectives, will be available free of charge to business people across New Zealand this month. The events will take place at Spark Lab in Auckland, with three of the ... More >>
Spark partners with Netflix
Monday, 27 February 2017, 9:23 am | Spark
Spark and Netflix, the global internet television network, are announcing an exclusive partnership that gives Spark broadband customers a subscription to Netflix’s Standard plan for one year when they sign up to a 24 month Unlimited Data Spark broadband ... More >>
Consumers are beneficiaries of decision to turn down merger
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 11:25 am | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand said today the Commerce Commission’s decision to decline the proposed merger between Sky Network Television Ltd (“Sky”) and Vodafone New Zealand (“Vodafone”) is a big positive for kiwi consumers. More >>
Spark welcomes Court decision on Sky/Vodafone merger
Wednesday, 22 February 2017, 4:48 pm | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand (“Spark”) said today it welcomes a High Court decision to order a short-term stay in the event the New Zealand Commerce Commission (“Commission”) gives its clearance tomorrow morning to the proposed merger between Sky Network Television ... More >>
Spark partners with Enable to trial ‘street in a week’
Monday, 20 February 2017, 4:03 pm | Spark
Spark partners with Enable to trial ‘street in a week’ fibre broadband installations in Christchurch More >>
Spark NZ Seeks Short-Term Pause
Monday, 20 February 2017, 11:51 am | Spark NZ
Pause would enable time for all parties to fairly consider their legal options before merger became a fait accompli More >>
Spark NZ H1 FY17 Results
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 3:04 pm | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand Chairman Mark Verbiest said today the financial results for the half-year ended 31 December 2016 demonstrate it’s been another six month period of dynamic change and ongoing progress. More >>
Spark signs deal with Ericsson
Tuesday, 14 February 2017, 12:03 pm | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand has announced today that Swedish company Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has been selected to help deliver its next-generation, fully digital voice network technology. The new solution, called IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) brings Spark’s ... More >>
