Telecom announces fibre plan with no landline hook
Telecom has announced a Naked Ultra Fibre plan, which will allow users to tap into fibre speeds without paying for a home phone package.
Telecom has announced a Naked Ultra Fibre plan, which will allow users to tap into fibre speeds without paying for a home phone package.
From this Monday (17 March) some Xtra email users may need to change their account settings before they can access their email accounts on third party email clients, as Yahoo and Telecom apply an additional encryption setting to Yahoo Xtra email.
Telecom will be contacting select Xtra email users from today as, together with service provider Yahoo, it applies security enhancements to the Xtra email platform.
Telecom Retail Chief Executive Chris Quin is warning Yahoo Xtra customers about a spam email that has been sent to some Yahoo Xtra email accounts.
Xtra has been fined $45,000 after being found guilty of breaching the Fair Trading Act in the Wellington District Court today. Xtra must also pay $10,000 in costs.
Still more changes to YahooXtra’s email are irritating users and forcing them to adjust their settings — this time confirming each individual email address used.
Xtra domain-name customers have lost their cellphone email service in the wake of Xtra’s new Yahoo alliance and have no idea when it will resume.
Telecom and TelstraClear internet services suffered significant outages over the Christmas-New Year period.
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.
There was a 50% increase in spam on the Thursday just before Telecom switched its Xtra email platform to Yahoo, says Thom Hooker, director of operations at Auckland-based secure email software developer SMX.
Telecom’s launch of the Yahoo!Xtra Bubble service got the public’s attention for all the wrong reasons after last weekend's outages which saw thousands of customers cut off from email service, flooded with spam and unable to get through to Xtra’s helpline.
Telecom says email faults that have dogged its service over the weekend and into this week are now resolved.
Josh Bailey’s Kiwi accent is barely detectable. The San Francisco-based employee of internet behemoth Google says if you don’t pronounce the letter R the American way “they won’t understand you”.
What Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung recently referred to as the "worst kept secret in the industry" is now official: the telco is partnering with Yahoo! to provide content and online services for its Xtra web portal.