FryUp: Into the sunset
Into the sunset
Into the sunset
All the buzz last week was around a possible bid for Telecom’s troubled Australian subsidiary AAPT by Asian firm Pacnet, which appears to have big regional ambitions.
Gen-i is playing down the loss of a New Zealand Defence Force mobile and data deal, which Computerworld reported two days ago.
TelstraClear’s South Island fibre investment is paying off, with the company winning a 10-year deal worth $20 million to supply network services to Transpower.
Internet service provider TelstraClear has partnered with US security solutions provider Arbor Networks, to protect local customers from managed distributed denial of service (DDoS). This is an attempt by hackers to render a computer resource unavailable to its intended users.
In a statement Arbor Australia and New Zealand country manager Nick Race says the size and scope of the DDoS problem is overwhelming to businesses, with large service providers like TelstraClear claiming they are best positioned to deal with the issue.
TelstraClear will receive benefits that include access to data from Atlas, a global threat analysis network. Arbor has embedded technology in the world’s largest ISP networks to sense and report on threats.
Datacraft, Gen-i and Earthwave also offer Arbor's technology in New Zealand.
Telecommunications provider TelstraClear is investing more than $1 million over two years to be one of first ISPs in New Zealand to be compliant with the PCI (Payments Card Industry) data security standards.
A report by investment bank Goldman Sachs JBWere stating the New Zealand Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) market has made little progress since the beginning of the year is being panned as “astounding” by operators.
Telstra’s CEO, Sol Trujillo, has reiterated the importance of the company’s New Zealand and trans-Tasman business after the Australian incumbent reported its annual results last week.
TelstraClear is about to launch what it says is New Zealand’s first Distributed Denial of Service attack solution.
The Ministry of Social Development has signed contracts with Gen-i and Vodafone to deliver its telecommunications services.
HealthLink chief executive Tom Bowden says the company has received more than 500 letters of support from GPs over its revolt against an agreement to interconnect health networks.
TelstraClear has upped its internet service charges. Fortunately this has coincided with its service being favourably rated by Epitiro, the independent UK-based rating company.
Commercial provider HealthLink has refused to sign a new agreement between telcos to interconnect their secure health networks, citing security concerns.
The Commerce Commission has delivered its fifth quarterly telecommunications monitoring report, for the first time benchmarking Vodafone’s fixed line residential phone plans and its home phone plus national plan that uses its mobile network.
ICT Minister David Cunliffe may yet force internet service providers to restore full peering — to improve broadband efficiency — if more of them don’t move of their own accord.