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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 15]
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 >>
Spark files notice of intention to acquire TeamTalk
Tuesday, 7 February 2017, 9:21 am | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand Trading Limited today advised it has filed a notice of its intention to make a full takeover offer for 100% of the fully paid ordinary shares in TeamTalk Limited at an offer price of 80 cents per share. More >>
Spark store ram-raided, stolen phones blocked
Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 4:34 pm | Spark
This morning, thieves ram-raided the Spark Ponsonby store with a car and stole a number of mobile devices. This robbery follows a previous ram-raid on the same store a few months ago. More >>
Spark partners with UnisonFibre for fibre installations
Wednesday, 1 February 2017, 11:49 am | Spark NZ
Spark has announced a partnership with network company Unison for the installation of fibre for residential and small business customers in the Napier, Hastings, Taupo and Rotorua regions. More >>
Spark Leads for Speed
Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 3:54 pm | Spark NZ
To continue our focus on the performance of webpage downloads, we have changed our reporting to show the Webpage Average Speed from our key markets, NZ, Australia and USA. On this measure Spark is the leader for ADSL and equal best with 2Degrees on ... More >>
Spark broadband services restored, some residual issues
Sunday, 29 January 2017, 2:48 pm | Spark
Updated media advisory: Spark broadband services restored, some residual mobile service issues still being experienced Updated media Advice on Spark mobile and broadband outages 29 January 2017: All Spark broadband services should now be fully restored ... More >>
Spark mobile and broadband are now being restored
Sunday, 29 January 2017, 11:45 am | Spark
Media Advice on Spark mobile and broadband outages 29 January 2017: Impacted Spark mobile and broadband services are now being progressively restored following this morning’s outages. From approximately 9.15am there were widespread outages intermittently ... More >>
Email Service Alert - Xtra Email Issues
Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 5:01 pm | Spark
Some customers may be experiencing problems receiving Xtra mail when using an out of date third party mail client configuration. For Windows PCs this includes for example, using Windows XP with an Outlook product. For Macs this includes for example ... More >>
Free WiFi coming to popular holiday spots this summer
Friday, 23 December 2016, 1:28 pm | Spark
Holiday makers around New Zealand will be able to enjoy free WiFi this summer. Spark is taking WiFi campervans to some of New Zealand’s popular holiday spots, so customers and non-customers alike can post their selfies, share their summer highlights, and ... More >>
