Telecom Corp, the country’s biggest phone company, is hoping to drive customers on to faster broadband services with a deal to offer discounted online access to the English Premier League football. The Auckland-based company will offer existing broadband customers a 15 percent discount for a $149.90 ‘season pass’ on Coliseum Sports Media’s PremierLeaguePass.com website, and new customers on mid-range plans …

Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, has been contacted by the China National Development and Reform Commission as part of an investigation into milk powder prices in the world’s most populous nation. The Auckland-based company is cooperating fully with the Chinese regulator, which is reviewing a wide range of consumer businesses in the Chinese dairy industry, Fonterra said …

The regime governing New Zealand’s ultra-fast broadband roll-out risks “the real probability of repeated political intervention as those in public office exercise their legislated powers to safeguard taxpayer investments and secure their political objectives.” That warning comes in a briefing paper from Victoria University’s Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation, which is convening a day-long seminar to probe …