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Mar 21, 2019 · But while the change was rapid for some, for others it was excruciatingly slow. Telecommunication came to New Zealand about 150 years ago - in 1862 when the first telegraph line was set up between Lyttelton and Christchurch. The first electrical transmissions of sound happened in early 1878 and by 1881 New Zealand had its first telephone ...
Country calling code: 64. The same code is also used to reach Scott Base in Antarctica and the United States base McMurdo Station nearby. Mobile phone system. Number of mobile connections: 4.7 million (2010)
The first mobile phones in the 1980s were the size of bricks, and few people bought them. As mobiles got smaller and cheaper they became very popular. When texting was introduced in 1998 cellphone numbers doubled. In 2006 Vodafone had 2 million mobile customers in New Zealand and Telecom had 1.8 million. By 2008 there were more mobiles than people.
