TelstraClear CEO Alan Freeth today unveiled the telco's new PDQ broadband plans —without a mention of pricing or speeds, possibly in an effort to draw attention away from the fact that the new service is resold Telecom DSL.
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.
TelstraClear-owned IT consultancy Sytec has notched up another contract win, close on the heels of it and its parent being awarded the $43 million deal to build the research and education advanced network.
The theme running through the reaction to Minister of Communications David Cunliffe’s thorough and tough regulatory package is one of total surprise.
TelstraClear has won the $43 million contract to build and operate New Zealand’s advanced research network for REANNZ (Research and Education Advanced Network of New Zealand).
A State Services Commission decision to chose IBM as its preferred supplier of network management and service delivery for the Government Shared Network (GSN) was greeted internally at Big Blue almost joyously.
What should have been a simple rationalisation of billing for internet and phone line charges has brought confusing messages and changes of direction for a high-profile customer of both TelstraClear and Telecom.
Fifty TelstraClear staff received an unexpected Christmas present last year when the telco made them redundant as part of a strategic review of its business.
Following major delays to email over the holiday period, TelstraClear is reassessing policy on email delivery through its ISPs.
The wholesale deal between Telecom and TelstraClear last week is seen by financial analysts Macquarie Equities as a big win for Telecom, suggesting the government will back away from changes to the regulatory environment as a consequence.
After over a year of bureacratic and legal wrangling, the Commerce Commission has issued its final determination on TelstraClear’s application for a Regulated Unbundled Bitstream Service (RUBS).
The announcement that TelstraClear is to be the preferred managed service provider for New Zealand’s long overdue Advanced Research and Education Network (AREN) has raised eyebrows in the industry over the transparency of the selection process.
A failed switch at TelstraClear’s Auckland facility last week interrupted email, web service and DNS resolution nationwide.
TelstraClear will not build a 3G mobile phone network in New Zealand, chief executive Allan Freeth has confirmed, following Telstra’s strategic review.
Staff and reporters alike gasped when Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo announced that he was getting rid of between 6 to 8,000 full-time positions over the next three years, and up to 12,000 over five years, as part of his turn-around effort for the Aussie telco.