Reports from New Zealand indicate that Alcatel-Lucent will compensate Telecom New Zealand some $73 million over the poor performance of its XT 3G network that it built and operates on behalf of the
Telecom New Zealand's new 3G network has been plagued with major outages during the past month, prompting the operator's CEO Paul Reynolds to put its 3G vendor Alcatel Lucent on notice, according to
November 5, 2009
Telstra has issued a staunch message to the Australian government's call to break up the incumbent telco: 'if you're going to make us split up, it's going to cost us $1.09 billion.' One option that
September 17, 2009
Australia and Singapore aren't the only countries with ambitious government-backed broadband plans. Now, New Zealand has unveiled its own broadband initiative. Under New Zealand's plan, the country's
September 1, 2009
Things aren't looking so good for Telecom New Zealand these days. The country's Commerce Commission said it opened up an investigation into the service provider's failure to honor an agreement made
March 12, 2009
New Zealand's incumbent carrier Telecom made its first official IP call today. Rivals say the company refuses to set a timetable to go all-IP, hindering their plans to compete. The first official
February 19, 2009
Down in Kiwi-Land, a columnist for The National Business Review takes a look at the five biggest headaches the incumbent phone company faces today, along with suggestions on how to solve them. Chris
November 30, 2008
New Zealand national telco Telecom experienced a broadband network outage late last week that caused service disruptions to about 500,000 customers on the telco's national network. The Friday night