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DIGITAL ISLAND WORKS WITH KEY IT PARTNERS TO PROVIDE UFB SOLUTIONS October 2011 With Telecom's roll out of Ultra-Fast Broadband in main CBD areas well under way, we've provided some of our customers with some great Ultra-Fast Fibre solutions by working in tandem with our trusted IT partners. FIBRE ROLLOUT UNDERWAY - ULTRA-FAST BROADBAND AVAILABLE IN MANY CBD AREAS NOW October 2011 New Ultra-Fast Broadband pricing has already been released, and services are available now at 204 telecom exchanges, so most businesses in Auckland and Wellington CBD sites can already access UFB at much lower prices than businesses are used to paying. IT BRIEF ARTICLE ON IP VOICE (VoIP): ANSWERING THE CALL September 2011 Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions have been around for years but the technology is finally becoming a mainstream option for New Zealand businesses. As Simon Hendry reports, the reason for VoIP's increasing popularity is simple: prices have dropped. MOVE TO FIBRE & SIP TRUNKING FOR PHONES & INTERNET A SUCCESS FOR DIGITAL ARENA September 2011 In an effort to reduce costs, increase internet bandwidth and simply test the offering of the market before promoting to our customers, Digital Arena made a complete switch to fibre optic internet and SIP trunking, using our partner of choice, Digital Island. SHARP NEW MOBILE PLANS LAUNCHED September 2011 Our completely new mobile plans reshape our mobile offering, enabling us to offer a free Samsung Galaxy S II on DigiSmart Grande or a DigiSmart 250 plan with 250 minutes, 1GB of data and 2000 texts for just $79 +gst per month. COMMUNICATIONS DAY ARTICLE: DIGITAL ISLAND - BEING AN MVNO IS ALL ABOUT THE BUNDLE August 2011 In the two years since Digital Island became the first MVNO to sell Telecom NZ’s XT network the company has carved out a small niche serving New Zealand’s medium sized businesses. It’s a lucrative niche, with an ARPU of NZ$125 per month before GST. Now the business is adding UFB services to its offering. NBR ARTICLE: FASTER CONNECTIVITY BRINGS GAME CHANGING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY July 2011 With the rollout of ultra-fast broadband well underway and businesses starting to move to ever faster internet connections, the door is opening for a raft of business changing communication services. DIGITAL ISLAND TERMS & CONDITIONS REVISION July 2011 Digital Island has revised our Standard and Online T&Cs, these are available on our website by clicking on the link above. Our terms & conditions have not changed, but the wording and formatting has been updated to be clearer and more consistent for our customers. NBR ARTICLE - FUNCTIONALITY MUST MATCH APPEARANCE June 2011 Small businesses that do not invest in technology risk disadvantaging themselves. LARGER DATA CAPS FOR BUSINESS BROADBAND CUSTOMERS June 2011 Digital Island has upgraded the data caps on all DigiNet ADSL2+ broadband plans. “With the rapid uptake of Internet services such as Cloud Computing, Video Conferencing etc, we are responding to a noticeable increase in the amount of data used each month by our business customers." said General Manager Blair Stewart. PRE-EMPTING MOBILE TERMINATION RATES WITH DIGISMART GRANDE April 2011 With the announcement of the new MTR due in early May, Digital Island has created DigiSmart Grande which includes 1000 minutes, 2000 texts and 200MB of data for just $159 +gst per month. We've also taken all our customers who were on our old version of this plan (DigiSmart 1000) and moved them onto the new plan. DIGITAL ISLAND AND LEASEPLAN SUPPORT PLUNKET December 2010 Digital Island was delighted to support Leaseplan NZ when during a Leaseplan team building exercise staff were asked to raise money and generate product donations for Plunket NZ. GOOGLE APPS AUTHORISED RESELLER November 2010 Digital Island has achieved Authorised Reseller status for Google Apps, opening up a new world of cloud computing to customers. IPHONE 4 HEAD TO HEAD WITH THE GALAXY S October 2010 With the Galaxy S pulling ahead of the Apple iPhone 4 sales in America and Japan, we decided to pit these two giants head to head and see who came out in the lead. TELECOM WHOLESALE PROFILE DIGITAL ISLAND'S MVNO August 2010 Telecom Wholesale's new Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) solution is the last piece in the puzzle for telecommunications providers. Digital Island explains why it is so important to both its business, and that of its customers. DIGITAL ISLAND COMPLETES 3G MVNO PILOT
July 2010
Business telecommunications provider, Digital Island, has successfully completed a three month pilot of its 3G mobile product. Digital Island is now offering 3G business mobile services to the open market. This is the latest milestone in Telecom Wholesale’s first MVNO deal, inked with Digital Island in 2009.
NZ HERALD ANNOUNCES THREE TELCOS TO OFFER TELECOM’S 3G NETWORK FROM JULY
May 2010
Digital Island, Telcoinabox and Zintel Cogent will begin offering 3G mobile services to their customers from July with the launch of Telecom Wholesale’s Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) service.
March 2010
Digital Island powers up MVNO 3G mobile network for new and existing customers.
February 2010
A dearth of suitable document management products for smaller businesses led telecommunications services company Digital Island to choose Microsoft SharePoint Server as a base to build its own bespoke solution.
December 2009
The 37 finalists were selected by The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation to provide an independent and robust evaluation process for the awards’ 10 categories. Finalists in the 2010 Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards have achieved results for their business customers despite the challenges of a very different economic environment.
December 2009
Digital Island ranked 251st in the 2009 edition of the Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500, one of a record 51 New Zealand companies which made the Index this year.
November 2009
Telecom New Zealand is already planning to upgrade its 3G XT network to 42Mbps during 2010. While the company only launched its 3G network earlier this year, Telecom NZ CEO Paul Reynolds said the XT network will be upgraded to 21Mbps speeds by the end of this year – with the speed to be doubled once again soon afterwards.
November 2009
Telecom Wholesale has chosen to bring forward Digital Island's access to the new Telecom mobile network to April 2010, a year earlier than originally planned. Digital Island will soft-launch the new network in April 2010, and move to a full service within two months.
October 2009
Business to business telecommunications service provider Digital Island has made it three in a row with 41st place in this year’s Deloitte Fast 50, following 6th place in 2008 & 2007.
September 2009
Leading business to business telecommunications company Digital Island is moving to new premises at the end of this year. “The move is due to our successful growth over the past five years,” says GM Blair Stewart.
July 2009
Auckland telco Digital Island Communications is going for its third consecutive Fast 50 listing after another year of strong growth. GM Blair Stewart predicts a gain of "a couple of hundred percent" growth for Digital Island over the last 12 months.
June 2009
When the economic climate became a whole lot tougher, these three Kiwi businesses bucked the trend and got going. Motherbase, Custom Residential and Digital Island. View Digital Island GM Blair Stewart's top tips for succeeding in the recession!
It makes sense when Blair Stewart tells you he took a supersonic ride on Concorde shortly before it went out of business. Stewart is general manager of telco company Digital Island which placed 6th in the Deloitte Fast 50 in both 2007 and 08, and took the awards for fastest growing telco and ISP in 2007 and fastest growing technology business in 2008.
April 2009
TVNZ's NZI Business spoke to General Manager Blair Stewart about how Digital Island supply our mix of great service and low cost, quality telecommunications services, and how Digital Island's mobile phone offering will affect the New Zealand telecommunications industry.
DIGITAL ISLAND ENTERS MOBILE MARKET
March 2009
Digital Island is to add mobile phone services onto its existing range of voice and data products for the New Zealand business market. The mobile services are being offered after achieving a commercial mobile deal with Telecom Wholesale.
December 2008
Digital Island Limited was ranked number 89th in the 2008 Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500 index. Thirty one NZ entrants to the Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 made the index – another outstanding year for Kiwi technology companies.
October 2008
Digital Island has won Fastest Growing Technology Business and won 6th place overall in the 2008 Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 index of New Zealand’s fastest growing companies. This follows on from 2007’s Fastest Growing Telco & ISP win and 6th placing.
August 2008
Computerworld article says: Real competition may only just be hotting up, but New Zealand already has a few next generation telcos, all offering distinctly different services but emphasising the same key element - service.
June 2008
Forthcoming NetDepend delivers “bullet proof” Business Internet broadband using ADSL with back-up via the Telecom mobile data network. CALL THEM LOYAL - DIGITAL ISLAND CUSTOMERS LIKE PRICES & SERVICE
May 2008
Telco Digital Island's loyal customers mean a churn rate of just 2.5% compared to global figures of 10-70%. DIGITAL ISLAND CELEBRATES FOUR YEARS
February 2008
Telecommunications company Digital Island celebrates its fourth birthday this month boasting a big list of achievements for the small size of the business. DIGITAL ISLAND 40th IN ASIA PACIFIC FAST 500 AWARDS
December 2007
Digital Island 40th overall in Asia Pacific Deloitte Fast 500, following Fastest Growing Telecommunications business win, and 6th place overall in the NZ Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 Awards. DIGITAL ISLAND DOUBLE SUCCESS AT FAST 50 AWARDS
October 2007
Digital Island wins Fastest Growing Telecommunications business, and took out 6th place overall in the Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 Awards. DIGITAL ISLAND SUPPORT & SERVICE “RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD”
September 2007
Digital Island points to the skills of its employees as a major contributor to its success with customers in the country’s medium-sized business market. DIGITAL ISLAND ENTERS THE NZ TELEPHONE SYSTEMS MARKET
February 2007
Digital Island is pleased to announce the introduction of business telephone systems to our range of products. FULLSPEED BUSINESS INTERNET IS HERE
October 2006
Digital Island is proud to introduce Full Speed Business Internet Access TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION
November 2005
Digital Island is pleased to announce the launch of a brand new website, providing a sharp new look, more information, and more functionality for Digital Island customers! DIGITAL ISLAND SURFS UP BROADBAND
October 2005
With the launch of High-Speed Broadband Internet services, Digital Island is now the one stop shop for all your business communications needs! We also provide your business with a complete range of products and services all on one easy to understand bill. BUSINESS PHONE LINES NOW AVAILABLE
September 2005
In another move to make running your business easier, Digital Island is pleased to announce the launch of our business phone line product range. BUSINESS TO BUSINESS Vol. 13, No. 5
May 2004
Move over Telecom – here comes Digital Island, selling low cost toll calls. |