NZ telco’s support for trans-activist’s comments is Spark for new TERF war

New Zealand mobile and broadband provider Spark is facing calls for a boycott by people who say they are appalled with the network’s support of Fijian-New Zealand trans-activist Shaneel Lal demand that ‘TERFS’ be banned from Facebook/Meta’s new Threads social media platform.   ‘TERF’ (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) refers to women who dispute that trans-gender women are biological

Glastonbury crowd uploaded 169 terabytes of data through Vodafone’s Worthy Farm network

Vodafone processed around 169 terabytes of data were consumed by the 200,000 Glastonbury Festival crowd last weekend using nine masts. This is double the amount of data used in 2022., Vodafone also handed out 2,500 SIMS to festiva-goers, emergency services, bar operators, charities and Glastonbury’s core operations and accessibility teams. At least 450 gigabytes of