Solomon Islands moving ahead with contentious plan to build Huawei mobile phone towers with $100 million loan from BeijingABC News Solomon Islands is pushing ahead with a contentious plan to borrow almost $100 million from China to build 161 mobile phone towers across the country with telco giant Huawei, despite an internal report warning the…
A Kiwi business podcast is not only educating women around the world about the stock market, it’s also inspiring them to dive in and start investing themselves. Girls That Invest is founded and hosted by Simran Kaur and Sonya Gupthan. The best friends launched the podcast in August 2020 with the aim of breaking down investing…
It wasn’t that long ago that Internet connectivity faded the moment one left a populated area like a city or big town – “no service” was the take-away message back then. But thanks to 3G, 4G and now 5G mobile technology, coupled with widespread installation of cellular towers in rural areas region-wide, that little message…
Tonga’s future management of catastrophes and national planning for disaster risks will be strengthened by improving national information systems and data collection, particularly disaster risk finance data. About 60 people in Nuku’alofa are this week attending a Stakeholder and Surveyors Training Workshop on risk assessment aimed at improving the Pacific Risk Information System and to strengthen…
Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Pasifika teens in focusing on artificial intelligence. About 30 students from 11 high schools have been at a hackathon in Ōtara, looking at how they can use technology to support themselves and their communities. Students from ASDAH Māngere, Mission Heights, Edmund Hillary, Massey High, McAuley, De La…
The new business will officially launch on 1 June 2022. Vocus NZ and 2degrees welcome today’s statement from the Overseas Investment Office, providing consent for the acquisition of 2degrees, which will enable the merger of the two businesses. Mark Callander, Vocus NZ CEO and named CEO of the merged business says, “We welcome OIO consent,…
How New Zealand’s Māori people are fighting for their data sovereignty The Māori data sovereignty movement is part of a global campaign for indigenous data protection. Empire has had many legacies in New Zealand. For the Māori, it has been one of exclusion. The arrival of British settlers from the late 18th century onwards led to…
Avaroa Cable, which operates the Cook Islands’ subsea connection, has appointed Mike Schwarz as its new CEO, taking over from Ranulf Scarbrough. Schwarz (pictured) was Vocus’s business manager for transformation in New Zealand, and is moving to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. Avaroa Cable is the Cook Islands company that delivered the Manatua Cable to the islands’…
(4th April update) Digicel executives have fled Papua New Guinea to avoid potential jail time for failing to pay a one-off $130 million tax imposed on the Pacific telco which Telstra is in the process of buying. The exodus of key management personnel raises the question of “who will run Digicel for Telstra”, a source…