New Zealand Communications Minister Steven Joyce has given the country's former monopoly telco Telecom NZ an extension on its deadline for overhauling its IT systems to deal with mandated separation of its operations.
Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan over the weekend said no decision had been made within parent Singapore Telecommunications to float the Australian subsidiary as a separate company.
The National Broadband Network Company has nabbed Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's chief of staff to be its new government relations and external affairs chief, as well as separately appointing a chief information officer.
Competition looks set to hot up in the New Zealand mobile market, with Telecom New Zealand announcing plans today to accelerate its wholesaling plans.
Telecom New Zealand's first quarter revenues received a boost from its new XT mobile network, but not enough to counter falls in most other revenue lines.
As we know, farmers are such bleaters. They bleat as much as the four-legged woolly things in their paddocks. If it's not the weather, it's the strength of the dollar! Nothing is ever right. Likewise with rural broadband.
One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
Virtually everyone in the telecommunications industry has their say in the Senate Standing Committee's public hearing into the pending legislation to split up Telstra, in this week's Twisted Wire podcast.
Amazon's Kindle comes to the Pacific region but not to New Zealand. Why?
Telecom needs to quickly jettison the forced Visionstream owner-operator deal for lines techies if it cares about its image.
BMC Software CEO Bob Beauchamp has headed up the company since the beginning of the decade, transforming it into the business service management power it is today. We find out what his priorities are.
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this.
While everyone was distracted by the NBN, a revolution was under way in the supply of fixed line broadband.
Father, brother, cancer survivor, highly intelligent engineer and leader of the "Australian mafia" group of executives who battled their way to the top of global telco supplier Alcatel-Lucent. We present Mike Quigley, executive chairman of the National Broadband Network Company.
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.
Shadman Zafar, CIO of Verizon Telecom, talks about how focusing on the growth of the company acts as a great incentive for employees to innovatively come up with ideas and create new business cases around those ideas.
David Forman, executive director of the Competitive Carriers' Coalition tells ZDNet.com.au what he thought Telstra's real reasons were for not following in BT's footsteps.
In 2005, telecoms competition was gaining its legs, but since then it has suffered a turnaround, going backwards while it rushes ahead in the rest of the world, according to David Forman, executive director of the Competitive Carriers' Coalition.
Lorie Buckingham, CIO of telecom solutions provider Avaya, talks about the promise of unified communications for its more than one million business customers around the world. She also discusses her passion for technology and strategy for integrating innovative communication technologies.
Tim Berners-Lee, considered to be the father of the Web, speaks with scientists and Silicon Valley executives at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif., about where he sees the Internet going in the next five years.
The Telstra F850 offers a relatively inexpensive way to jump aboard the carrier's Next G platform, as long as you don't mind travelling in the slow lane.
Vodafone's enhanced notebook PC Card delivers what the mobile telco calls 'business class 3G broadband' -- but until more of the 3G network is upgraded with HSDPA, most users will remain stuck in economy seats.
The broadband business -- plans, peaks, and penalties -- can be confusing to say the least. We line up some of Australia's best.
Secrecy seems to shroud the data centre arena -- all well and good for security's sake, but not so great when trying to pick a provider. We pull back the curtains to find what data centre options exist in Australia.
The frequency is changing from wired working to a wireless world. Can this new wave of technology help you gain the cutting edge?
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the … Watch it now
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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