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COMPANY NEWS: New Zealand’s mobile service revenue is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.5% from $1.5 billion in 2024 to $1.7 billion in 2029, driven by the mobile data services segment with rising adoption of 5G services, forecasts GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Energy supplier Sunshine Hydro appointed James Shaw as strategic advisor.

New Zealand competition regulator The Commerce Commission has issued its final decision to approve $1.722 billion expenditure by telco infrastructure wholesaler Chorus over the next four years (2025-2028) – but disallow $172.6 million that would have flowed through to price increases for consumers.

Tesserent Cyber Solutions by Thales Australia has been recognised as a key Microsoft Solution Partner in security, Azure infrastructure and modern work.

COMPANY NEWS: Insight Enterprises, the leading Solutions Integrator, is committed todriving innovation and fostering growth within the dynamic landscape of New Zealand. With a steadfast commitment to empowering businesses through cutting-edge technology solutions, aims to revolutionise the digital transformation journey for organisations across the country.

Looking ahead to the rest of 2024, Australia and New Zealand’s economic prospects are modest, with both nations facing similar economic issues since mid-2023 including high inflation, sluggish growth, and rising interest rates. Against this complex backdrop, Forrester anticipates only a modest increase (+4.0%) in tech spending in Australia for 2024.

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and New Zealand communications services providers 2degrees, have announced a five-year extension to their existing joint radio access network (RAN) technology partnership.

Not-for-profit edtech charity Grok Academy’s five-week online programming course and interactive competition, the National Computer Science School Challenge (NCSS Challenge) is kicking off in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand on 29 July 2024.

COMPANY NEWS: Insight Enterprises, the leading Solutions Integrator, is committed to driving innovation and fostering growth within the dynamic landscape of New Zealand. With a steadfast commitment to empowering businesses through cutting-edge technology solutions, Insight aims to revolutionise the digital transformation journey for organisations across the country. A key focus will be on leveraging data and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to drive efficiency, innovation, and a competitive edge for clients.

IBM has expanded its Australia and New Zealand senior leadership team with the appointment of Dane Gambrill as Principal, Security Business Leader.

COMPANY NEWS: Teradata (NYSE: TDC) and Knoware, a New Zealand based data and analytics consultancy, today announced a strategic partnership to empower customers in New Zealand and Australia to innovate and deliver on outcomes with their data and analytics technologies.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Adrian Hall (Director at Citrus Consulting) and Matt Swinbourne (CTO, Cloud Architecture at NetApp) about how Citrus Consulting uses NetApp technology and Ai in the New Zealand market.

Intelligent integration and automation company Boomi has announced that HEB Construction has chosen it to enable the delivery of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) modernisation project that ensures global alignment with its parent company, bolsters local governance, and established a re-use philosophy.

Converged endpoint management and security provider Tanium has appointed Paul Tuffs as the Regional Vice President for Australia and New Zealand.

Members of Australia's parliament have been advised to carry burner phones when they visit India, Seven's The Nightly website reports.

GUEST RESEARCH:  Generative AI (GenAI) and AI will significantly transform industries in the future, according to 81% of Australian and New Zealand respondents to new research.

Digital infrastructure operator Vocus has signed a deal with Google to provide the highest-capacity submarine cable systems in the south Pacific between Australia and the US.

GUEST OPINION by Jeff Wagner, Solution Architect, Datacom: It was the Sora video of golden retriever puppies playing in the snow that tipped me over the edge into mushy awe at what the latest AI model from OpenAI is capable of.

GUEST OPINION: As debates on the efficacy and ethics of body-worn cameras continue to simmer globally, a recent Milestone Systems survey in Denmark sheds light on public sentiments regarding their use, prompting us to ponder: Can similar initiatives find success in the Australasia region? With its clear mandate for police use, political nuances, and nuanced public trust, Denmark's insights provide valuable considerations for Australia and New Zealand.

Nearly half of small and medium businesses in Australia (46 per cent) anticipate a decrease in turnover by the end of the year due to economic pressures, according to research from RFI Global, commissioned by Australia’s online small business lender Prospa.