News and releases

Last week Cabinet’s Economic Development Committee approved a paper confirming key ETA decisions.

About half of New Zealand homes and businesses have connected to faster, more reliable broadband across the 121 centres where ultra-fast broadband (UFB) is available, according to the latest government report.

Applications for round three of the Tourism Infrastructure Fund (TIF) are now being welcomed.

The first allocation of 5G spectrum will be the 3.5 GHz band, with national rights to this portion of the spectrum expected to be auctioned early in 2020.

A public consultation has begun on proposals to modernise telecommunications services for people who are Deaf, deafblind or have hearing or speech impairments.

On Friday, the New Zealand and Australian Prime Ministers announced a joint intention to adopt the Pan European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) interoperability framework for e-Invoicing.

The anticipated review of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) is now underway, and will run until 2020.

The Government is considering replacing the Minimum Wage Exemption scheme.

Job advertisements rise by 2.0 per cent in the December 2018 quarter.

Tariff concessions have applied to many materials used in residential construction since 2014.