One New Zealand

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini – this whakatauākī emphasises that strength is not as an individual, but as a collective, and the importance of teamwork. Rob Selwyn, Māori Engagement Lead, spoke today at the Māori Leadership Summit in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland about how we’re approaching the kaupapa of advancing Māori careers at One NZ. He was joined by our CEO Jason Paris who talked through some of his experiences of applying te ao Māori. From Mana One to Te Kaa (learning experiences) - and Te Rourou, One Aotearoa Foundation to HAKA Stand as a Nation - they highlighted how we are supporting Māoritanga and trying to grow representation within our business. The pātai (questions) and whakaaro (thoughts) from the audience were really encouraging. We’re all on a journey!

Did you know the World Economic Forum estimates it will take another 133 years to reach full gender parity around the world 🤯 International Women’s Day 2025 focuses on the need to #AccelerateAction - and our team embraced this theme with an event on Thursday in our offices and livestreamed to all Oneders 💚 Thanks to our fabulous Mana Wahine network for organising (led by Karen Sneddon & Zoey Phippen) - and to Emma Mclean and Summer Collins for sharing your experiences and tips 🦸♀️

AI is rapidly advancing, and we want to harness its incredible benefits for our customers, and for our own people. That’s why we have an aspiration to become the world’s most AI enabled telco. Our Chief AI & Data Director Summer Collins explains our approach. This includes: 🔐 Spending the last couple of years laying the groundwork that will allow us to transform our business to operate in this new world with robust data privacy, security and ethics at the core. ⏱️ Rolling out our first AI tool, Microsoft Copilot, across our office-based workforce, to help our people boost their productivity and to take away repetitive, time-consuming work (our trial group saw an average saving of 39 minutes per day). 💡 Empowering our people to make the most of this new technology, by investing in upskilling and training with the goal of setting them up for future success in their career as AI becomes a key part of peoples working lives, starting with our AI Elevate event. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gCKG5sMt

🚀 We launched One NZ Satellite TXT to bring coverage like never before to New Zealand, and to keep Kiwis safer, better connected and more productive. It’s amazing to see the positive impact this is already having for our customers, like Interpine Innovation who have called it a ‘gamechanger for the forestry sector’, keeping their field crew operators and foresters in touch in remote locations. We now have over 300,000 customers on eligible phones and plans who can text through space at no extra cost, and we’re working at pace to make coverage like never before a reality for more New Zealanders. For more info check out https://one.nz/satellite

Do you like coffee? And connecting? Imagine you could do both? 🤩   Last week we hosted our latest Coffee & Connect event in our Welly office in - a fascinating discussion on sustainability and driving broader outcomes.   Nicky Preston, Head of Sustainability & Corporate Affairs, joined Paul Leith for a korero about our approach to creating a better-connected Aotearoa New Zealand.   The conversation covered a range of bases and included:   ✅  Prioritising what matters most.   🌏 Social responsibility and how that shows up in the business decisions we make.   🚀 The safety and productivity outcomes our One NZ Satellite service will offer in terms of resilience and eliminating coverage dead zones.   👥 Supporting youth experiencing disadvantage via Te Rourou, One Aotearoa Foundation led by the enigmatic Ezekiel Raui    💚 Operational efficiency, emissions reduction, and scope 3 emissions footprint mapping plus supplier engagement.   💸 The ever-present challenge of funding.   For more information about our sustainability approach, strategy and latest report is available on our website.   We'll be back on the long blacks and flat whites in March, so keep eye out for invite – drop me a DM or comment below if you want to get your name on the door! Paul Leith John Sloan Megan Wilson Angela Natoli Steph Hannaway Mike Thompson Will Habgood Paul Jermy George Serepisos #coffeeconnect #onenzpublic #digitisegovt

☀️ Out making the most of the last official week of summer? 🏖️ Whether you've been on the beach, or enjoying a festival with friends, our network team has been hard at work, helping keep you connected. In this NZ Herald article, One NZ's GM Mobile Network Thaigan Govender, MEngNZ shares the ways One NZ customers around the country have been getting online and staying connected this summer.

DEFEND's focus is on helping our customers enhance their cyber resilience, and our approach centres on a multi-dimensional resilience profile. Check out the whitepaper below, authored by our COO Shiv Prasad, on the Four Dimensions of Cyber Resilience to find out how your organisation can gain a comprehensive and adaptable resilience strategy! #cyberresilience #cybersecurity #cyberstrategy

🚀 One NZ Satellite TXT - The numbers so far: - More than 300,000 customers now eligible to text through space at no extra cost - Over 450 Starlink direct to mobile satellites now in space, meaning the time to send / receive a text is improving to within minutes - 23 handsets now eligible (including Samsung Galaxy S23+ and Samsung Galaxy XCover6 Pro added this week) with more in testing - Over 10,000 messages a day sent by One NZ customers through the satellite network over the last week We’re working at pace to make coverage like never before a reality for more New Zealanders, as seen in this photo by Hayley Moston, testing at Lake Mangamahoe.

We're excited to welcome Greg Patchell as incoming CEO of our cybersecurity specialist company DEFEND. More here: https://media.one.nz/greg

So much aroha and pride for our Tupu Toa interns 💚 Mā mua ka kite a muri, mā muri ka ora a mua.