It’s Official: Telecom Would Split to win Crown Fibre Business
National Business Review – New Zealand In a refined proposal to Crown Fibre Holdings, Telecom has formalised its proposal to split its wholesale and retail operations. Topics: Chorus, Crown Fibre, Crown Fibre Holdings, fibre, merger, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, Paul Reynolds, telecom, telecoms
Fibre-Optic Cable Headed For Your Sewer Pipes
Stuff.co.nz New Zealand homes and businesses could soon be getting ultrafast broadband through their sewer pipes. The Government is gearing up to select firms to demonstrate various methods for deploying the fibre-optic cable that will be rolled out under its $1.5 billion ultrafast broadband scheme, and Brisbane firm I3 APAC, which has rolled out fibre [...]
Telecom New Zealand Plans
Telecoms News Telecom Corp of New Zealand Ltd has said that the Chairman of the company, Wayne Boyd, would not leave the company until completion of the government broadband plan. Topics: broadband, government, New Zealand, Otago, telecom, Telecom New Zealand, telecoms
Telecom New Zealand Separation
Telecoms News After stating categorically that separation for Telecom New Zealand was not an option, Chief Executive Paul Reynolds has now done a U-turn and is seriously considering the option. In order to remain one of the big league players in New Zealand, the New Zealand telco needs to separate its network and retail businesses. [...]
Telecom’s XT Coverage Claim, Not a Breach: Commission
TopNews United States As per the reports from the Commerce Commission, Telecom’s claim for its XT mobile phone network has not breached the Fair Trading Act. It further stated that it had assessed the complaint and is not putting forth the proposal for a full investigation. Topics: New Zealand, telecom, telecommunications, telecoms, United States, XT
New Zealand Telecom To Get NZ$100m From Alcatel-Lucent As Compensation
Wireless Federation (blog) NZ$100 million will be paid by Alcatel-Lucent to New Zealand’s Telecom Corp as a compensation for a series of outages of its high-speed XT mobile network in recent months. However, no comment has come from the concerned party. Topics: 3G, Alcatel-Lucent, cellular, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, outage, telecom, telecoms, wireless, XT
Alcatel Lucent to Compensate Telecom NZ Over 3G Network Failings
Telecoms.com Reports from New Zealand suggest that Franco-US vendor Alcatel Lucent (ALU) is to award a compensation payment of NZ$100m (US$72.8m) to incumbent player Telecom over the poor performance of the ‘XT’ 3G network it delivered to the carrier, and operates on its behalf. Topics: 3G, Alcatel-Lucent, cellular, New Zealand, telecom, telecoms
AlcaLu Still ‘On Notice’ in New Zealand
Light Reading Alcatel-Lucent is not off the hook at Telecom New Zealand Ltd. as the operator and its supplier deal with the aftermath of major 3G network outages in the country that occurred late last year and early this year. At the time of the outages on the “XT” 3G network in December 2009, and [...]
Telecom New Zealand Plans to Split Off Chorus
Wireless Federation Splitting of network operating unit Chorus in two years has been announced by Telecom Corp. of New Zealand Ltd in order to be able to participate in a national fiber rollout. The company has also announced a downgrade of its profit guidance for fiscal 2011. Topics: broadband, Chorus, New Zealand, telecom, Telecom New [...]
Telecom appoints ex-Vodafone GM as Director of Mobile
National Business Review – New Zealand Kieren Cooney has been named Telecom’s new Director of Mobile. He replaces the departing Paul Hamburger – once dubbed “Mr XT” in Telecom promotions – who is departing in June. A Telecom spokesman told NBR the Florida-based Mr Hamburger had chosen not to renew his contact for “a mix [...]
Commission Examines New Zealand Telecom’s About-Face On XT Network
National Business Review – New Zealand Yesterday, NBR revealed the surprising extent of Telecom’s upgrades to its XT network, including the accelerated roll out of dozens of new cell towers, and hundreds of tower-mounted amplifiers. Some of this spending was planned (but dragged forward); millions, apparently was not. Topics: cell tower, New Zealand, New Zealand [...]
Telecom’s ‘Mr XT’ Quits
National Business Review – New Zealand The string of XT failures has claimed its third major scalp. Telecom’s Florida-based director of mobile, the American Paul Hamburger (number 15 on NBR’s tech power list) will not renew his contract. Topics: American, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, telecoms, XT
Telecom’s XT Fails AGAIN – Alcatel-Lucent Chief Resigns
Stuff.co.nz Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds will today front up over the latest failure of its XT mobile phone network as the boss of the company that built the network resigns. Steve Lowe, Alcatel-Lucent’s New Zealand managing director, announced his departure yesterday – as the XT network failed for thousands of Telecom customers south of [...]
Telefonica Wants Google To Pay Up
New Zealand Herald Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use. In comments from a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao, President Cesar Alierta said companies like Google use a lot of network bandwidth for free, something which was good for them [...]
Telecom’s Fibre Role
Stuff.co.nz In Australia, the government is doing everything in its power to force Telstra to participate in its National Broadband Network (NBN) programme. By contrast, in New Zealand, the government appears almost indifferent to Telecom’s participation in its fibre-to-the-premises proposal. Topics: Australia, broadband, fibre, laws, New Zealand, telecom, telecommunications, telecoms, Telstra
