Sponsors Info
HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
In New Zealand, HP partners with the world’s leading companies to bring the best solutions to its customers - from consumers through to organisations and businesses across all key market sectors.
Further information about HP is available at: http://www.hp.co.nz/
Telecom
Telecom is New Zealand's largest telecommunications service provider, and touches almost every New Zealander through the products and services we provide, and the work we do within our communities. We provide the full range of internet, data, voice, mobile and fixed-line services throughout New Zealand and Australia and we are listed on the New Zealand, Australian and New York stock exchanges.
On 31 March 2008 our business was operationally separated in line with amendments to the Telecommunications Act. As a result, Telecom is now made up of five customer-facing businesses: Chorus; Telecom Wholesale & International; Telecom Retail; Gen-i and AAPT. We employ almost 7,000 people here in New Zealand and around 1,600 more in Australia and around the world. These people are all connected by a single focus on delivering for our customers. Everything we do, begins and ends with this focus.
Vodafone
The mobile telecommunications industry in New Zealand is vibrant, dynamic and fast-paced. More than 3.8 million New Zealanders - or about 92% of the population - are now estimated to have a mobile connection!
Vodafone Group acquired its New Zealand business (previously known as BellSouth New Zealand) in November 1998. At the time of purchase, Bellsouth had 138,000 customers.
As at 30 June 2008, Vodafone New Zealand had a customer base of 2.4 million customers.
Competition in the New Zealand mobile market is intense, with customers benefiting through the introduction of many new products and services.
These include TXT and PXT messaging, voice and data roaming, caller ID, wireless internet and Vodafone live! In recent years, our customers have started to enjoy ubiquitous access to their favourite internet sites like Google, Facebook, Trade Me, Twitter and many more through our mobile internet services that offer fast, simple access over our 3G enabled network.
In October 2006, Vodafone bought fixed-line ISP ihug, making a commitment to introduce more competition and choice to the fixed line market in NZ and begin offering its customers total communications services.
Today, Vodafone New Zealand employs 1400 passionate people who work in an energetic and fun culture that's focused on finding new and fresh ways to delight you!
TVNZ
TVNZ is New Zealand's leading television and digital media company. TVNZ provides two commercial free-to-air channels TV ONE and TV2, and two free-to-air digital non-commercial channels TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7. TVNZ's website tvnz.co.nz is New Zealanders' world of news and entertainment, with regularly updated text news stories and video content, as well as a rich entertainment offering allowing New Zealanders to engage further with their favourite TVNZ shows.
TVNZ was the first media company in Australasia to launch an online television catch up service, TVNZ Ondemand. Available at tvnz.co.nz, TVNZ Ondemand is the place where New Zealanders can watch their favourite shows whenever they want to.
TVNZ is also a shareholder in Hybrid Television Services Pty, the licensee for TiVo® in Australasia. The TiVo media device is a digital television recorder that allows viewers to control their television-viewing experience like never before. Viewers can pause, rewind and record live TV, and with Telecom broadband, can download the latest movies and TV shows to their TiVo device.
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, industry and public sector customers worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. With operations in more than 130 countries, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. With over 800 staff and offices in Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington and Christchurch, Alcatel-Lucent has had a presence in New Zealand since 1913 and gives local customers, including many of New Zealand's largest
Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson, a 50:50 joint venture of Sony Corporation and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, was established in October 2001.
Our vision is to become THE communication entertainment brand. We inspire people to do more than just communicate. We enable everyone to create and participate in entertainment experiences. Experiences that blur the lines between communication and entertainment.
Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with personalised services to enable people to stay close to what matters to them.
Xero
Xero is an online accounting system designed specially for small businesses and their advisors.
Using Xero is easy. It gives you a real-time view of your financial position, daily bank feeds, invoicing, payables, GST, reporting and you can share information with your accountant.
Xero is available on your PC or Mac in the office, at home or on popular mobile devices - anywhere, anytime. Try Xero for free.
CallPlus
Since 1996, we've been delivering lower prices and great service to New Zealand businesses. We're 100% Kiwi owned & operated and over the last thirteen years we have been developing unique and innovative products that save our customers both time and money. Our latest Voice over IP packages includes solutions for both small and medium size businesses.
Motorola
Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions (EMS) provides a wide range of products and technologies, from wireless infrastructure to mobile computers, to data capture devices and applications and services that give customers the right information, at the right time, to make the right business decisions at the point of business activity. Better Information. Better decisions. Better Results.
Huawei
Huawei is one of the leaders in providing next generation telecom networks in over 100 countries. By committing its continuous effort in R&D and offering best-of-class ALL IP 3.5G/4G and End-to-End solution, Huawei helps operators to deliver a better quality of experience to its customer and achieves dramatically on TCO costs saving challenges, gaining competitive advantages to compete than others.
Farmside
At Farmside we passionately believe that living rurally shouldn’t mean that you can’t use the latest and greatest in communication services available. We’ve invested millions of dollars on clever technology to be able to bring to all New Zealand high quality phone and high speed broadband services wherever you live, work or play.
Kordia
A key regional player in the Asia-Pacific broadcast and telecommunications industry, Kordia operates in both the networks’ business, and in contracting and consulting, with over 700 highly-skilled engineering, network operations and field technician staff.