New Zealand Telecom’s stock lost 7.7% of its value today, after an announcement was made that CEO Paul Reynolds would be leaving the company. His departure had been speculated on for several months, and although his leaving may be a done deal, there are still details that have yet to have been made public. The [...]
CommXpress: Datacenters May Pan Australia For New Zealand
Posted by grahame on August 18th, 2011
Mark Rushworth has high hopes for making New Zealand the new datacenter capital of the South Pacific. The Pacific Fibre CEO has a number of good reasons to be hopeful for such a prospect. Besides being centrally located between Asia and the United States, New Zealand boasts a wealth of relatively stable, green energy sources. [...]
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Tags: Australia, datacenter, datacentre, New Zealand, Pacific Fibre 
No Comments »CommsXpress: Christchurch To Build Citywide Wi-Fi
Posted by grahame on August 15th, 2011
The city council of Christchurch announced today an ambitious, 10 year rebuilding plan, which will include the installation of a high-speed wi-fi network that will be available for free throughout the city. The NZ$350,000 wireless project will utilize the country’s upcoming high-speed fibre network (UFB) as its main broadband feed and will be available to [...]
Posted in CommsDay Australasia Tags: Christchurch, Enable Networks, New Zealand, Wi-Fi No Comments »CommsXpress: Pacific Fibre secures supplier
Posted by grahame on July 19th, 2011
Pacific Fibre announced today that it has signed America’s TE Connectivity Ltd. to a supply contract in hopes to compete with Telecom’s Southern Cross cable. Pacific Fibre has contracted a new cable to be deployed between Auckland, Sydney, and Los Angeles to be completed by 2014. The entire undersea cable is expected to reach a [...]
CommsXpress: Free Trade May Keep Wireless Roaming Rates High
Posted by grahame on July 18th, 2011
The governments of Australia and New Zealand may find wireless roaming rates between the two countries more difficult to overhaul than previously anticipated. Although the two governments have been in negotiations to lower the bloated fees that currently plague travelers between the two nations, it seems that a new roadblock may have been discovered in [...]
Posted in CommsDay Australasia Tags: Australia, New Zealand, roaming, wireless free trade No Comments »CommsXpress: TelstraClear Axes 100Mbps Broadband Service
Posted by grahame on July 12th, 2011
The Dominion Post is today reporting that New Zealand internet service provider TelstraClear is ditching plans to offer 100Mbps broadband service in Wellington using its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) delivery system. It previously offered the service to its customers in Christchurch using HFC, but has decided to scuttle existing installations due to lack of demand. The [...]
Posted in CommsDay Australasia Tags: 100Mbps, broadband, Christchurch, HFC, New Zealand, TelstraClear No Comments »CommsXpress: Telstra Raises Pre-Paid ILD Rates
Posted by grahame on June 30th, 2011
Despite calls by both the Australian and New Zealand governments to investigate the high rates charged by carriers for wireless calls between the two countries, Telstra began notifying its pre-paid users today of rate hikes that will push the cost of international long distance calls even higher. Most notably, the company increased its pre-paid calling [...]
CommsXpress: XT Customers In The Dark
Posted by grahame on June 22nd, 2011
Telecom XT customers in parts of Wellington, New Zealand are currently experiencing a disruption of their data services. XT has confirmed that the outage is a result of a hardware failure at one or more of its cell sites. No ETA on when the situation will be resolved is currently available.
