Wellington, Aug 4 NZPA - The Telecommunications Users Associations (Tuanz) is calling on Vodafone and Telecom to pre-empt regulation by immediately lifting surcharges on cross-network calls and texts.

Wellington, Aug 3 NZPA - Crown Fibre Holdings (CFH) has received 15 refined proposals for the Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative.

Wellington, July 28 NZPA - Pacific Fibre -- the company set up earlier this year to build a fibre optic cable between New Zealand, Australia and the United States -- is working on the project with Asian telco Pacnet.

Wellington, July 19 NZPA - Orcon is entering the mobile telecommunications market, saying it is extending its broadband philosophy by doing away with mobile fixed term contracts.

Wellington, July 12 NZPA - Chinese technology company Huawei has been outed as a potential technology partner in the Government's $1.5 billion ultrafast broadband (UFB) initiative by Prime Minister John Key.

Wellington, July 9 NZPA - Vodafone and Orcon are to equally share $1.6 million of compensation from Telecom, under a Commerce Commission ruling on loyalty offers made by Telecom Wholesale.

Wellington, July 8 NZPA - Mobile company 2degrees has decided to rejoin industry group the Telecommunications Carriers' Forum (TCF), 13 months after it pulled out of the body which it viewed as largely controlled by Telecom, Vodafone and TelstraClear.

Wellington, June 28 NZPA - Merchant services company SmartPay is expanding its services to include prepay top-ups for mobile network operator 2degrees.

Wellington, June 24 NZPA - Trans-Pacific data cable company Pacific Fibre has raised more than $NZ1 million from a range of investors, including former Fairfax Media chief executive David Kirk, who is joining the board.

Wellington, June 24 NZPA - Former Fairfax Media chief executive David Kirk is joining the board of trans-Pacific data cable company Pacific Fibre and is investing in the project.