Telecom stories
Orcon, CallPlus, and Compass team up to enhance unbundled services across New Zealand, allowing customers broader access to each other's networks.
Telecom and Alcatel Lucent failed to manage the high number of subscribers attracted onto the XT Network when it launched in May last year.
Chorus has reached halfway in its Fibre to the Node<br />programme and will switch on its 1800th cabinet today, the company has<br />announced.
Telecom's troubled XT Network appears<br />to be experiencing its fifth outage since December - this time in the Auckland<br />area.
Despite efforts to polish its image at the Planet 2010 expo, the telecommunications industry continues to grapple with a tarnished public perception.
Mark Callander steps in as CallPlus CEO, steering the company towards local loop unbundling in Hamilton, nationwide WiMAX rollout, and expanding MVNO services.
ISPs make more profit from data caps than the underlying broadband service, says ISPANZ president Jamie Cairns.
Telecom is to pay USD $120,000 in refunds for misleading broadband ads, and USD $75,000 to support a price comparison tool, the Commerce Commission has ruled.
Telecom has scrapped its Big Time broadband plan, launched last July, due to unmanageable traffic and complaints from high-end users.
Telecom's chief financial officer Russ Houlden is the latest<br />high-ranking executive to quit the company, it was announced today.
McCain Foods has signed a four-year<br />agreement with Gen-i to move all of its mobile connections to the XT mobile network.
Further details have been released on last week's news that Telecom had signed three Mobile Virtual Network Operators onto the network.
CEO Paul Reynolds says increased competition, economic slowdown, regulatory interventions and XT network issues are behind the drop in revenue.
Telecom is set to release the much-anticipated recommendations from the independent report on XT outages, following a review by Analysys Mason.
Richard Hooper, former Ofcom deputy chair, challenges NZ's telco regulation approach; advises harmony among agencies and advocates for dark fibre access.
Telecom has announced that Matt Crockett, CEO of Telecom<br />Wholesale and International, has resigned after seven years with the company.
Telecom has announced its director of mobile Paul Hamburger<br />will leave the company when his contract expires in July.
Alcatel Lucent is seeking three top mobile managers for its Wellington HQ, aiming to revitalise its mobile network maintenance approach and enhance performance.
Cabinet approves NZD $300 million rural broadband plan; Telecom warns of up to NZD $56 million annual EBITDA impact, shares dip to $2.17.
Theresa Gattung's memoir, Bird on a Wire, challenges her successor's high salary and reflects on government regulation of Telecom's copper network.
