New Zealand ISP Orcon has confirmed its intention to acquire 40GBps of interntional bandwidth capacity on the New Zealand/Australia-US segments of Hawaiki Cable’s submarine cable system.
Kordia has sold Orcon to a group of private investors led by Vivid Networks director Warren Hurst.
State owned telecommunications company Kordia is undergoing a strategic review and is in consultation with the Crown over its future.
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The current cost of fibre services for Auckland businesses is “astronomically high”, especially when compared to prices Wellington businesses pay, according to Orcon CEO Scott Bartlett.
Woosh’s Rod Inglis struck a controversial note right at the beginning of the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee’s hearings on the Telecommunications Amendment Bill. Picking up his theme of the outdated nature of the Vodafone 3G solution adopted for rural broadband, He said “there’s not even a consideration in the bill of what pricing for 4G might be."
An asset write-down related to the government’s decision to bring forward the switch from analogue to digital TV to 2012 has caused Kordia to post an $18 million loss for the six-months to December.
From March Orcon plans to launch a symmetrical broadband service in central Auckland exchanges where the company has installed its own infrastructure.
Unbundled plans - that is a broadband service from an ISP that has put in its own equipment into an exchange - provide web browsing speeds that are faster than plans from Telecom Wholesale, according to a Commerce Commission audit of broadband from January to June 2010, released today.
Orcon has announced the acquisition of Auckland-based online technology services provider Bizo. The acquisition adds managed services to the telco’s portfolio.
Telecommunications provider Orcon is experiencing a major outage, cutting off internet and phone access to customers across the country.
Services first went down late on Monday night, then again from lunchtime today.
Orcon’s call centre and phone lines have also been affected, so the company is using Twitter to tell customers about the problem.
It tweeted, "Outage is still continuing. Our tech (team) are working as hard as they can to fix the issue. I'll update as soon as it is resolved, I'll update," just after 12pm.
Dozens of users had been asking the company what was wrong with their internet connections this morning.
The company was also hit by an outage last Friday, which lasted about one hour.
Three years after signing an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) deal with Vodafone, Orcon has unveiled its first mobile service.
Orcon has followed FX Networks in deciding to exchange traffic with Telecom through some of the 29 peering points set up on the latter’s network nationwide.
Orcon will pull out of the Telecommunications Disputes Resolution Scheme, established in 2007 to settle disputes with consumers.