Following Xtra’s withdrawal of the Usenet internet news service, a source at TelstraClear, which operates the major rival ISPs, Paradise and ClearNet, says it may either withdraw or significantly trim these services at some time.
Degraded switch performance in conjunction with an equipment change was behind yesterday's outage for TelstraClear DSL, cable and dial-up customers, the second largest telco in the country says.
Following major delays to email over the holiday period, TelstraClear is reassessing policy on email delivery through its ISPs.
TelstraClear has dumped its 128Kbit/s Paradise cable service in Wellington and Christchurch.
Some Wellington cable customers of Paradise Net were deprived of service for more than 10 hours on October 16 and 17 while technicians chased a fault through the TelstraClear ISP's system.