Telecom NZ has engaged outsourcing and IT consultant Infosys to improve its testing and up-skill its workers.
Telstra has not been separated and construction of the NBN on the mainland is still in the pipeline, but today saw Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd kick off a conference that was designed to help Australia understand how 100 megabits per second broadband can be used.
Telstra's battle with the unions is heating up as a second union has called on its 1000 members to strike over the telco's alleged anti-union wage strategy.
The government-owned fibre-to-the-home builder and operator, NBN Co, will over the coming months pore over the capabilities, skeletons and local presence of vendors to create its shortlist of five to 10 suppliers.
Telstra has announced that it will allow its customers to tether iPhones. In a software update released over the weekend, the block preventing Telstra iPhones from being tethered was removed.
Within a month of the birth of Channel Seven's WiMax internet service provider, vividwireless, Telstra had welcomed it with "cease and desist" letters over its use of the term "4G".
NBN Tasmania has awarded Corning Cable Systems its second deal to supply the state's fibre optic cable to connect around 5000 homes by mid-2010 under the $38 million initial phase of the project.
The builder and operator of the government's wholesale-only fibre telco, NBN Co, has kicked off its hunt for vendors to supply networking equipment for its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network.
Mininova's decision to remove links to copyright-protected media last week is being hailed as a victory by Dutch anti-piracy group Stichting Brein. However, it's unlikely to make much difference to network traffic and could prove a boon for independent producers.
Over the coming weeks Nextgen boss Phil Sykes will be touting a new pricing regime for regional backhaul, which the telecoms industry hopes will undercut Telstra's pricing.
The nation's largest telco, Telstra, has unveiled a new iPhone plan which will see new customers getting a $100 account credit when they purchase a new plan.
Since South Australia and Victoria's lobbyist registers became effective this week, many companies have included themselves a good proportion of which are representing large technology brands.
Vodafone has lost a New Zealand Court of Appeal case about the way regulator the Commerce Commission works out the costs of providing local residential telephone services to non-commercial customers.
Amcom managing director Clive Stein said today that he wasn't concerned about competition from the National Broadband Network (NBN) because 100Mbps was too slow for many of his customers.
Five more NBN Co executives are to be "assigned" to the Tasmania NBN company as the national company revealed it would retain control over most appointments for the state's fibre telco.
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