Telephones

• Country calling code: 64
  • The same code is also used to reach Scott Base
    Scott Base
    Scott Base is a research facility located in Antarctica and is operated by New Zealand. It was named after Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy, leader of two British expeditions to the Ross Sea area of Antarctica...
    
     in Antarctica and the United States base McMurdo Station
    McMurdo Station
    McMurdo Station is a U.S. Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island, which is in the New Zealand-claimed Ross Dependency on the shore of McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. It is operated by the United States through the United States Antarctic Program, a branch of the National...
    
     nearby.
• Mobile phone system:
  • Number of mobile connections: 4.7 million (2010)
  • Coverage available to approx 97% of the population.
  • Operators:
    • 2degrees
      2degrees
      2degrees is a U.S. and British owned mobile phone provider operating in New Zealand with 580,112 customers . They launched on 5 August 2009 after 9 years of planning. 2degrees currently offers prepaid and pay monthly mobile services...
      
       (operating GSM and UMTS)
    • Telecom New Zealand
      Telecom New Zealand
      Telecom New Zealand is a New Zealand-wide communications service provider , providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, an internet service provider , a major ICT provider to NZ businesses , and a wholesale network infrastructure provider to other NZ CSPs...
      
       (phasing out CDMA EV-DO and operating UMTS HSDPA)
      • MVNO:TelstraClear, DigitalIsland http://www.digitalisland.co.nz/products/mobile+phones+plans.html
    • Vodafone New Zealand
      Vodafone New Zealand
      Vodafone New Zealand is a British owned telecommunications company, a subsidiary of Vodafone Plc operating in New Zealand. It is New Zealand's largest mobile phone operator, based in Auckland, New Zealand and was formed in 1998, after Vodafone purchased BellSouth's New Zealand operations...
      
       (operating GSM and UMTS HSDPA).
      • MVNO:Compass http://www.compass.net.nz/residential/mobile/, Black+White http://www.bw.co.nz/, CallPlus/Slingshot , Orcon, M2
• Fixed-line telephone system:
  • Number of fixed line connections: 1.92 million (2000)
  • Individual lines available to 99% of residences.
  • Operators:
    • Telecom New Zealand
    • TelstraClear
      TelstraClear
      TelstraClear is New Zealand's second-largest telecommunications company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation , with around 400,000 customers....
      
      
    • Orcon
      Orcon Internet Limited
      Orcon Internet Limited , is a state-owned New Zealand telecommunications company. It is currently New Zealand's fourth largest ISP.-History:...
      
      
    • Vodafone New Zealand
• Cable and microwave links:
  • Domestic:
    • optical fibre
      Optical fiber
      An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made of a pure glass not much wider than a human hair. It functions as a waveguide, or "light pipe", to transmit light between the two ends of the fiber. The field of applied science and engineering concerned with the design and application of...
      
       and microwave
      Microwave
      Microwaves, a subset of radio waves, have wavelengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz and 300 GHz. This broad definition includes both UHF and EHF , and various sources use different boundaries...
      
       links between cities
    • submarine
      Submarine communications cable
      A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean....
      
       optical fibre cables between North Island
      North Island
      The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...
      
       and South Island
      South Island
      The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean...
      
      .
  • International:
    • Submarine cables:
      • Southern Cross Cable
        Southern Cross Cable
        The Southern Cross Cable, operated by Bermuda company Southern Cross Cables Limited, is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000....
        
         (to Australia and Hawaii)
      • TASMAN 2 (Australia-New Zealand)
      • PacRimEast or Pacific Rim East (New Zealand-Hawaii)
    • Satellite earth stations: 2 Intelsat
      Intelsat
      Intelsat, Ltd. is a communications satellite services provider.Originally formed as International Telecommunications Satellite Organization , it was—from 1964 to 2001—an intergovernmental consortium owning and managing a constellation of communications satellites providing international broadcast...
      
       (Pacific Ocean)

Radio

• Radio broadcast stations: AM 124, FM
  FM broadcasting
  FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...
  
   290, shortwave
  Shortwave
  Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...
  
   4 (1998), 4 on Freeview digital satellite.
  • See also: List of radio stations in New Zealand
• Radios: 3.75 million (1997)

Television

• Television broadcast stations: 41 (plus 52 medium-power repeater
  Repeater
  A repeater is an electronic device that receives asignal and retransmits it at a higher level and/or higher power, or onto the other side of an obstruction, so that the signal can cover longer distances.-Description:...
  
  s and over 650 low-power repeaters) (1997)
  • These transmit 4 nationwide free-to-air networks and a few regional or local single transmitter stations. Analogue to be phased out by end of 2013.
  • Digital Satellite pay TV is also available and carries most terrestrial networks.
  • Freeview digital free satellite with a dozen SD channels, with SD feeds of the terrestrial HD freeview channels.
  • Freeview, free-to-air digital terrestrial HD and SD content.
  • Cable TV is available in some urban areas in conjunction with telephone services.
  • See also: List of New Zealand television channels
• Televisions: 1.926 million (1997)

Internet

• Internet Service Provider
  Internet service provider
  An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
  
  s (ISPs): 36 (2000)
• Internet users: 2.11 million (2002)
• Country code (Top level domain): .nz
  .nz
  .nz is the Internet country code top-level domain for New Zealand. It is administered by InternetNZ through its subsidiary, NZ Registry Services, with oversight and dispute resolution handled by the Domain Name Commission Ltd. Registrations are processed via authorised registrars...
  
  

External links

• Video about the lack of competition in NZ mobile market (WMV) produced by TVNZ