While well aware of the many different ways of ensuring its customers connect to the internet of things, Telecom’s role is to be connection agnostic says Simon Moutter.From the consumer point of view, they don’t often care or know whether it is through copper, fibre, Wi-Fi or cellular says the...
Ericsson to close down telecom cable manufacturing
Posted on 23-May-2013 08:46. | Filed under: News :*Broadband.
Ericsson has initiated union negotiations to close down its telecom cables operation within business unit Networks.The company says a decline in the market for copper cable...
Telecom New Zealand announced today that it will have 4G LTE live on a large part of its Smartphone Network in Auckland by October. The company will then extend 4G LTE coverage to Wellington and Christchurch by Christmas, and expects to have 4G LTE live on close to half of its nationwide...
Telecom expects to reduce its number of full time equivalent employees from 7,530 at 31 December 2012 to approximately 6,300 to 6,600 by the middle of this year.
Total staff numbers at Gen-i Australia will fall from approximately 180 to about 60 employees. In addition to redundancy costs, it is anticipated there will be other restructuring costs associated with this action.
Telecom, Vodafone and Telstra announced today they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) to co-invest in the construction of a new submarine cable between Auckland and Sydney.
Telecom said today it was commencing a review of email service to its broadband customers following a series of issues which have impacted negatively on the Yahoo! Xtra service over the past year
Telecom is initiating a password change programme to fix problems with Yahoo! Xtra customer email accounts that have been compromised by a recent cyber attack.
Telecom New Zealand has contracted Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade the telecommunications provider’s core transport network to a converged 100Gbps Optical Transport Network (100G OTN) this calendar year.
The Auckland trial will take place in parts of the North Shore on the 2600MHz spectrum and will be conducted by Huawei Technologies. Alcatel-Lucent will run the trial in the Lower Hutt area of Wellington, also on the 2600MHz spectrum.
Telecom New Zealand has decided to move to the cloud with the Microsoft Office 365 productivity platform, leveraging the new managed service platform recently announced by Infosys, Microsoft and Gen-i, Telecom’s ICT services division.
Marking the change in ownership, the Foundation is turning Givealittle.co.nz into New Zealand’s first zero fees fundraising service, permanently removing the 5% administration charge as part of the deal.
The Polycom RealPresence Platform will power both Gen-i (Telecom's ICT services division) and Telecom hosted video offerings, benefiting from its open-standards approach, which ensures interoperability with hundreds of unified communications, business and social network applications.
I can't connect to the internet on it. It comes up with "Connection failed" every time. I've tried everything I can think of to get to to connect but nothing's happening. Everything else works fine though. Help please :-)
We'll, we threw down with Dr. Umar Johnson, last Saturday on Critical Discourse. While the intended focus was the International Blackman Teleconference for the 22nd, Dr. Johnson touched on a number of general topics affecting black men. Because we ran out of time, he agreed to come back this...
Chris is currently CEO of Gen-i Australasia. He has been a member of Telecom's Leadership Team for the last four years and part of the Telecom team for a significant time.