Labour signals slow track for most contentious labour law reforms
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 22 (BusinessDesk) - The government will announce a timetable for legislating a range of long-signalled reversals to labour law changes made by the previous administration later this week, but is placing its intention to introduce new Fair Pay Agreemen...
Spark, Vodafone scorn 'self-serving' 5G build proposal from Chorus
By Pattrick Smellie Dec. 8 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's two largest mobile telecommunications providers, Spark and Vodafone, have poured scorn on a proposal by fixed broadband network owner Chorus that the next generation of so-called 5G mobile technology should be built on...
Build shared 5G mobile network using the UFB model, says Chorus
By Pattrick Smellie Dec. 7 (BusinessDesk) - The next generation of mobile telephony, known as 5G, should be built using the same government policy approach that supports the nationwide rollout of Ultra-Fast Broadband to create a shared, regulated backbone, says the chief execu...
New hurdles for rural and forest land sales to foreign buyers
By Pattrick Smellie Nov. 29 (BusinessDesk) - Foreign buyers of rural land will face tougher requirements to provide additional benefits to the New Zealand economy under new government directives to the Overseas Investment Office which also slash the size of farms covered by OI...
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