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  • AAPT plans 'ball-breaker' product launch

    PowerTel is gearing up to be a critical asset to AAPT as the Telecom New Zealand subsidiary shifts its reliance on fixed line to data and readies to launch what chief executive Paul Broad today said would be a "ball-breaker" consumer product.

  • Telecom NZ suffering further decline

    Telecom New Zealand has reported a 43.9 per cent fall in full year net profit to NZ$398 million (AU$324.08 million), continuing a recent downward trend.

  • Telstra access price hike thwarted

    Telstra's legal challenge to the prices set by the Australian competition watchdog of access to its copper network was last Friday rejected in the Federal Court.

  • AAPT wants Optus reined in too

    AAPT chief executive Paul Broad has called on the government to boost the competition regulator's power to rein in both Telstra and Optus from moves he claimed were stifling competition in the fixed line and broadband markets.

  • How Paul Broad would fix Telstra

    AAPT chief executive Paul Broad won't say whether he wants the top job at Telstra following the departure of Sol Trujillo, but he's got firm opinions about how he would change some of the company's operations.

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Blogs (3)

  • Read the blog post - Phil Dobbie

    Where next for telco number three?

    What's next for AAPT? Australia's number three telco refused to join Twisted Wire this week, so we decided to cover them anyway, guerrilla-style.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Dear carriers: More walking, less talking

    Sometimes, a well-placed and well-timed letter can make all the difference. Other times, it can make no difference at all and even hurt your case. This week's missive by the Competitive Carriers' Coalition, I would suggest, falls into the latter category.

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    New Year's resolutions for telcos

    Some suggestions of New Year's Resolutions for the Australian telecommunications industry.

Features and Case Studies (4)

  • Telstra stalwarts to lead NBN Co

    Mike Quigley and Doug Campbell's long-standing relationships with Telstra and few of its rivals will lead Australia's telecommunications industry to question privately whether Telstra will receive a phenomenal level of access to the NBN decision-making processes.

  • AAPT unlikely to be sold

    Australia's third-largest telecommunications company, AAPT, has been left at the altar so many times that there is understandable scepticism that it will tie the knot in 2009.

  • AAPT gets thrown a lifeline

    If Pacnet's offer for AAPT is genuine and on the terms laid out in the Reuters story, then Telecom New Zealand chief executive Paul Reynolds ought to agree to the offer as quickly as he can.

  • Is Telstra a backhaul monopolist?

    Yes, says iiNet, and the telco giant's price chains are keeping smaller players from venturing down the rural broadband route.

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