Movers and shakers: Dhaya Sivakumar joins Orion Health
A roundup of the latest business technology executive appointments and events in New Zealand.
A roundup of the latest business technology executive appointments and events in New Zealand.
“There is no market crash”, says Gartner as it forecasts a 5.5 per cent decline in global IT spend in 2015.
Spark New Zealand notched total revenues of $3.638 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30 2014, with the second half alone at $1.791 billion. This is a 2.6 per cent drop on the full year from last fiscal’s revenues.
Major rebrand is not limited to physical assets, as the group’s more than 100 online systems will change over to Spark on or after Friday.
Three executives leading some of the biggest business transformation projects in New Zealand – ANZ Bank, Telecom and NZ Post – talk about preparing systems and teams for a state of constant change.
Telecom has confirmed today that it will be launching its internet TV business, called Lightbox, in the next few weeks, with about 5,000 hours of content. This will include exclusive television series and a range of back-catalogues of TV shows.
Telecom has been granted clearance by the Commerce Commission to acquire the management rights for the final block of 5MHz radio spectrum in the 700MHz range.
Vodafone has launched a new roaming service by which Kiwis travelling to 17 destination countries will be able to text, call and use data on their local plan rates for a fixed daily rate of $5.
More than 120 major systems covered in two years, says CEO Simon Moutter
Telecom, working with Huawei, has enabled carrier aggregation on six of its 4G mobile sites in central Auckland today.
With UFB, businesses are also future-proofing themselves for technologies we can’t even imagine yet but will come out over the next 20 years, says Telecom retail chief Chris Quin.
CEO Simon Moutter: Resetting the company for the digital future.
Vodafone, Telecom and 2degrees collaborate to make mobiles less attractive to thieves
The auction conditions include requirements for mobile network operators to upgrade their existing rural cell sites to 4G capability within five years, and for successful bidders to continue expanding cellular coverage.
Telecom has chosen Huawei to build its 4G/LTE network, which is due to go live in October.