Digital Island stories

Andrew Crawford joins Digital Island as General Manager of Business Development to drive growth and AI-enabled customer solutions from September 2025.

Exabeam has appointed Andrew Balestrieri as Regional Sales Manager for Australia and New Zealand, bringing 30 years of IT and cybersecurity experience.

Susannah Redstone, with over two decades of telecoms experience, has been named General Manager at Digital Island.

Leon Sheehan, CEO of Digital Island, joins us today to tell us more about Digital Island, its new workshop offering, and what the company expects for 2023.

Digital Island has launched Customer Experience Accelerator Lab to help businesses get the most out of their contact centre operations.

Hands-free, Bluetooth-savvy and constantly on-the-go, New Zealand’s farming community is demanding a ‘digital touch’ as part of the services they seek out.

The achievement recognises that Digital Island follows best practices and has proven success in delivering AWS services to end customers.

When businesses were battling through Covid disruptions, contact centres were utilising innovative technology solutions.

Digital Island appoints Grant Sweeney as Customer and Sales General Manager to enhance its role as a specialty cloud communications provider in New Zealand.

Grant Sweeney appointed as Customer and Sales GM at Digital Island, to enhance role as communication and contact centre provider in New Zealand.

But why are we seeing an increase in market share by the smaller telcos at a time where fewer and fewer exist?.

I wasn’t inclined to believe that Spark would leave Digital Island to act as an independent brand as part of its wholesale and ventures division.

Ed Hyde, CEO Spark ventures & wholesale, says the acquisition, while relatively small for Spark, is a smart, tactical investment.

The Windows 10 upgrade is having a severe impact of local UFB, with network traffic increasing by up to 100% in New Zealand.

Imagine, an employee on average spends nine minutes every day waiting for files and websites to download. That is more than 53 hours a year!.

UK businesses race to the cloud as Digital Island reports a 65% surge in firms adopting cloud services to stay competitive.

Further details have been released on last week's news that Telecom had signed three Mobile Virtual Network Operators onto the network.

Telecom has brought forward plans to offer wholesale services on its XT Network by a year, it’s been announced today.

Telecommunication providers had a strong showing in this year’s Deloitte Fast 50, which ranks the fastest growing companies in New Zealand.

Rural ISP Farmside ranks 18th in Deloitte's Fast 50, winning the fastest-growing tech, media, and telecoms business for Canterbury and Upper South Island.