Tech Insider: Spark puts some numbers around its big Transpower win, Infratil downgraded, Microsoft’s plan to reboot nuclear plant

Spark will help our national grid operator hold it together through a $100m comms network upgrade. Microsoft plans to reboot the Three Mile Island nuclear plant (last seen melting down on Jane Fonda). And high-flying Infratil cops a downgrade.

Consumer reveals a class of inkjet that doesn’t rip you off. How cold weather can challenge an EV. Spark has given the Herald some extra details of the Transpower contract it announced on Friday, indicating the scale of its win.



The national grid operator selected Spark for a major upgrade of its “TransGO” network over the next five years. “TransGo is a private telecommunications network owned by Transpower, which it uses for substation protection, substation supervisory control and data acquisition, HVDC [high voltage direct current] protection, voice communications, corporate applications,” the Commerce Commission said in an August filing..