Usenet’s discussion forums, also called newsgroups, are once again seething with discontent as users of TelstraClear ISPs Paradise and ClearNet vent their frustration about alleged service limits imposed from above.
TelstraClear’s DSL service has been ranked as the top broadband service in New Zealand, according to a broadband performance analysis conducted by UK-based internet measurement company Epitiro.
Gen-i will manage the new mobile network deal struck between TelstraClear and Telecom earlier this month, rather than Telecom’s wholesale division.
TelstraClear and Objective Corporation are the first two accredited service and content partners on KAREN, the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network.
Customers large and small are being forced to rethink their mobile communications plans as the simmering row between Vodafone and TelstraClear deepens.
Let’s not mince words here: TelstraClear pulling out of the fixed/wireless project in Tauranga is a fiasco. Furthermore, it’s something of a stretch to ask us to believe that it was a mere contractual disagreement with Vodafone that made TelstraClear can the project with $50 million allocated to it over four years.
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.
Would it make sense for courier packages being sent overnight across Wellington City to travel via Auckland, or to Australia — or even the US and back, before delivery? It makes no more sense for internet data packets.
TelstraClear has completed a year-long, $3.5 million integration and upgrade to its email systems bringing all services onto a standard resilient platform — and cutting spam in the process.
Telecom may have gone quiet on its plans ahead of Communications Minister David Cunliffe’s industry regulations coming into effect, but its smaller ISP rivals are in a frantic spin trying to bump up their customer numbers.
TelstraClear is on a "trajectory to disaster" and facing a loss of $7 million, says chief executive Allan Freeth in a leaked email.
TelstraClear’s cable service has suffered more problems. Following a number of cable breaks in adverse weather over the past two months, a glitch in its routers late last month resulted in two IP numbers being assigned to some users through different routers. This conflict caused the user’s cable modem to shut down.
Stress-testing a network usually consists of letting the network boys stay late to play games, but when your network is a telecommunications company, stress testing and disaster recovery takes on a whole new meaning.
Vodafone and TelstraClear are seeking limits to what the telco regulator can do, according to submissions made to parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee, which is currently discussing the Telecommunications Regulation Bill.
It’s not often I hear a statement as absolutely and fundamentally true as the one made by Woosh’s chief financial officer, Gary Neil, last week.