Brighter Spark looks for cloud’s silver lining

Work has started on adding an extension to Spark's Takanini datacentre. (Image: Spark Digital)

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

While Spark’s books are in good shape for the June 2022 financial year, its dreams of cloud domination have fallen short, with shrinking margins and stalled customer numbers stifling revenue growth.However, it was a great year for the telco, with the board approving the biggest dividend increase in seven years and the promise of more to come.Spark's board and leadership have every reason to be optimistic about delivering on that growth – out of its 13 success indicators for the June financial year, only three were not achieved.T...

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