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Public feedback is being sought on proposed changes to the National Environmental Standard (NES) for telecommunications facilities to help speed up improvements and reduce costs.

Communications Minister Amy Adams and Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith launched the discussion document today, which includes a range of proposals to modernise and streamline the existing NES.

Hearing impaired people can now access captioned telephone services for an additional two hours a day, Communications Minister Amy Adams announced today.


The CapTel NZ service enables people to listen to the other speaker and read word-for-word captions of the other person’s speech at the same time. The service is now available from 7am to 10pm, seven days a week – previously it was available from 8am to 9pm. Outside these hours the phones still work, although the captions are not available.



Communications Minister Amy Adams has welcomed three central North Island towns becoming fully-fibred as momentum grows around the Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) build.

Work to build the UFB network has come to an end in Cambridge, Tokoroa and Hawera this week, bringing the total number of completed towns and cities to six.

The rate at which people are signing up for the Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network is accelerating with uptake quadrupling in the past two years, Communications Minister Amy Adams said today.

National uptake figures reached 11.3 per cent as of December 2014, more than double the December 2013 rate and more than four times what it was at the end of 2012.

The start of a new year is a good time to update your cyber security including changing passwords for all your internet-connected devices says Communications Minister Amy Adams.

Today is Safer Internet Day which aims to remind people of the potential dangers that can be found online.

More than 6200 households, schools, businesses and health facilities in Oamaru can now connect to Ultra-fast Broadband, Communications Minister Amy Adams has announced.

Speaking at Aoraki Polytechnic in Oamaru today, Ms Adams said it was the third urban area in New Zealand to have its UFB network completed and the first in the South Island.

An auction of new radio spectrum licences has fetched almost $17.4 million says Communications and Broadcasting Minister Amy Adams.

Yesterday was the final day of the week-long auction where 126 AM and FM radio licences were sold across the country.

“The success of this auction and record return highlights that the radio broadcasting industry still has an important part to play in the New Zealand economy,” says Ms Adams.

Connections to broadband have accelerated by nearly forty per cent over the past quarter as more households, businesses and schools are able to join the fibre network.

The latest quarterly figures on the Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) and Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) were released today by Communications Minister Amy Adams at the Huawei New Zealand ICT Roadshow in Auckland.