Telecom New Zealand News

Telecom New Zealand customers are reported to be still experiencing a fault which has left them unable to make calls to Fiji over the last week.

Telecom New Zealand faced union protests in Auckland today in relation to its re-shuffle of engineering contractors.

HTC Corporation has announced its newest QWERTY smartphone, the HTC Snap, is available through Telecom New Zealand.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format: New Zealand Mobile Facebook up 700% in Last Five Months Twitter seems to be the microblogging site that gets all the attention and Hollywood love, but there is another option out there called FriendFeed.

Phone users could be forced to wait two more years for cheaper calls to mobiles, despite the Government's enforcer confirming that Telecom and Vodafone have been charging far more than they should.

Smaller telcos have welcomed recommended regulation of mobile termination charges, despite the length of time it could take to make changes.

The New Zealand Commerce Commission has called for the regulation of mobile termination prices, saying that local wholesale prices are more than double global benchmarks.

Telecom has appointed a third service provider Visionstream to roll out its broadband network.

Telecom network access business Chorus is bringing in Australian company Visionstream to carry out field force operations in Auckland and Northland.

Talk isna t cheap: mobile phone sales wilt by 41% Mitchell Hall Monday June 22 2009 - 03:41pm Nokia's forthcoming N97 smartphone Only 210,500 mobile phones were shipped to New Zealand over the first three months of this year, down 41.4% on the same period last year according to figures released by market researcher IDC.

Telecom New Zealand says customers using Facebook on their mobiles has increased by 700 percent since January 2009, and is making it easier for customers to keep in touch through Facebook and Twitter with updates sent directly to and from Telecom mobile phones via SMS.

Dev Week is back after a couple of week's absence and I hope to keep it truly weekly from now on .

TelstraClear's long march towards unbundling is now on the home straight. The company says it has installed equipment in 21 exchanges and will have unbundled more than 40 by the end of the month.

Telstra has called for an "independent" part-Telstra-funded telecommunications adjudicator with the power to make binding price and access decisions.

Gen-i specialists manager Peter Thomas and Otago-Southland regional sales manager Chris Dawson demonstrate the new Telecom XT phones.

Twitter users can now send updates and receive txt notifications over the Vodafone and Telecom New Zealand networks.

"As a fellow Brit I'm ashamed that Paul and Russ would come down here and take the salaries that they do, then do something as stupid as abolishing $10 txt," says Black+White boss Jonathan Eele, referring to the emigration choices and XT pricing executed by Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds and chief financial officer Russ Houlden.

Telecom New Zealand has announced that sign ups to its 3G 'XT' network exceeded its most optimistic targets.

RIVALS have turned up the heat on Telstra by formally urging the Rudd Government to break it up.

Telecom New Zealand has launched its new W-CDMA-based 'XT' network to over 97% of households nationwide.