The company also won a contact to supply and provide management services for Ultrafast Fibre, the winner of the UFB contract in Hamilton, Tauranga and other central North Island areas. Huawei is also supplying some of the fibre kit for Chorus' leg of the Rural Broadband Initiative. Alcatel-Lucent's relationship with Telecom was strained after the bungled XT launch.
At the same time, pundits say Huawei is offering carriers keen pricing as it seeks to build market share. Today, Telecom chief technology officer David Havercroft said Huawei was 18 months ahead of competitors in 4G technology. Asked about security questions raised around Huawei by some governments, Telecom said it the Chinese company's gear would undergo testing and certification. The process would be no more or less rigorous than that applied to any other vendor.
Telecom month NZX performance. Chorus spin-off Nov Click to zoom. Telecom has increased the speed, coverage and capacity offered by the Smartphone Network over time. We have had a very positive response, and are looking at how we can make this service available to customers more widely.
For business customers and families, Telecom had introduced Share Calling, allowing up to 10 people to be included on one plan to take advantage of lower per-minute calling. Roaming charges had also been simplified and travellers would know exactly what they would be charged. Telecom had divided up the countries it covered into five zones - one zone, one rate - to simplify billing, Dr Reynolds said. Content was the largest challenge for Telecom, but it announced on Wednesday it had joined forces with Yahoo!
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Skip to main content. Saturday, 23 May Comment now. In fact, apart from a gaggle of promo people letting the audience touch the new handset range, there wasn't a demo of the XT network's capabilities at all.
This is very likely due to Telecom agreeing to a last-minute filter install to deal with the XT-generated interference, so that Vodafone would drop the High Court injunction against the network's launch.
The network will go live on 29 May now instead, and I'm hoping to get a hands-on demo next week of what XT is capable of. For now, I haven't got much to report back. Will XT be successful and help Telecom regain the market share it has lost to Vodafone? Making it so presents a delicate dilemma for Telecom, a full-service provider with fixed-line and wireless interests that to some extent compete against one another.
On the one hand, Telecom's spending well over half a billion dollars on the mobile network, on the other, a couple of billions on the fixed-line broadband network. Don't get me wrong: there is no mobile wireless offering currently that will do as a fixed-line broadband replacement. For instance, even though XT promises There's the issue of data caps as well, with these being even more niggardly on 3G than on fixed-line broadband. If you're not an avid online surfer, and could downsize your communications need to just a 3G connection with phone and modem, and drop the landline, surely that's a tempting option in these fiscally constrained times?
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