Telecom was formed in 1987 from a division of the New Zealand Post Office and privatised in 1990.

新西兰电信最早在1987年作为新西兰邮政的一个分部成立，后于1990年私有化。

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SeniorNet was first established in Wellington in 1992 with support from Telecom New Zealand.

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Some people, like nationwide communications services provider New Zealand Telecom, got a little too excited.

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They join Bhupendra Kumar Modi, one of India's biggest telecom tycoons who gained Singapore citizenship in 2011, as well as New Zealand billionaire Richard Chandler, who relocated in 2008, and famed U.S. investor Jim Rogers, who set up shop there in 2007.

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