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• CityLink's Neil de Wit restructured out of a job

  CityLink CEO Neil de Wit has resigned, as a result of restructuring by the metro fibre provider’s owner, Team Talk. He departs on April 30.

• TelstraClear inks five-year Statistics NZ contract

  TelstraClear has signed a five-year renewal of its contract as a preferred supplier of telecommunications services to Statistics New Zealand.

• Fibre-optics adds to TeamTalk's profits

  TeamTalk has posted a $1.5 million profit for the half-year to December.

• Open source deeply ingrained at CityLink

  Network provider CityLink is focused on using the best tools available to support its infrastructure and deliver services to customers — and that has led to it using a lot of open source software.

• Wellington wants big broadband for all by 2012

  Despite not even applying for government funding last year, Wellington City Council is seeking industry partners for an ambitious plan to develop a broadband network stretching to the outskirts of the city by 2012.

• Nordics gauge NZ broadband technology market

  When it comes to broadband, New Zealand is at least a couple of years behind the Nordic countries, which are also four to five years ahead of much of Europe, says Michael Engstrom, vice president business development for broadband solution-provider PacketFront.

• Sorrow at death of CityLink founder

  Alan Dempster, director of information technology services at Victoria University of Wellington, died last week in a farming accident.

• TeamTalk buys CityLink

  Listed mobile radio company TeamTalk has acquired 67% of CityLink, the metropolitan networking company, with CityLink management taking the rest in a buyout from its original private owner Ron Woodrow, who will exit the company.

• Citylink trolleyed

  Citylink worked through the night last Monday to restore service to two customers after two trolley buses snapped overhead wires including a Citylink cable in the central business district.

• CityLink launches regional peering exchanges throughout NZ

  "They work rather like roundabouts"

• INL move outs CityLink

  Shared registry system also cut off

• CityLink claims United spreading FUD

  CityLink is rubbishing a rival’s claim that the overhead cable infrastructure supporting its Wellington network could vanish within five years.

• Trolley buses key to Wellington superiority

  A lightning visit to Wellington has convinced me that capital-dwelling IT workers have several lifestyle advantages over their Auckland counterparts. As I run through the list for you, some of them will seem a bit perverse, others trivial and a few downright daft.