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TelstraClear is a voice and data company with around 400,000 customers in New Zealand. The company provides residential line rental services, internet services, cable TV/cable modem and also mobile telephone services to 70,000 subscribers on its network in three areas (Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti). In 2004 TelstraClear began offering residential line HomePlan services including broadband outside those areas where it has its own network, reselling a wholesale product from Telecom New Zealand . HISTORY Telstra New Zealand was set up in 1996 by Telstra as part of Telstra's international expansion. Competing with the incumbent Telecom New Zealand, Saturn Communications and Clear Communications Telstra New Zealand initially focused on providing services to top tier international organisations who were already Telstra clients in Australia in the same way that Telecom New Zealand Australia, an Australian subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand currently does for New Zealand based customers in Australia. Telstra slowly expanded its operations in the business market bundling Telecom New Zealand services distributed as a reseller with its own network services. It installed switches in Auckland and Wellington to manage incoming and outgoing international traffic and maintained an interconnect agreement with Telecom New Zealand and is likely to have had others with companies such as Clear Communications . In 2000 Saturn Communications was sold by its parent company, Austar United Communications, to a new joint venture with Telstra entity that became known as TelstraSaturn . TelstraClear was then created by the merger of Telstra 's operations in New Zealand ''TelstraSaturn Limited'' and Clear Communications in 2001 . Austar United Communications held an initial investment of 42% in TelstraClear before selling it back to Telstra . SERVICES Subscription Television (InHomeTV) TelstraClear operates the Hybrid Fibre Cable pay television network developed by Saturn Communications in Wellington , Kapiti and Christchurch , prior to the sale to Telstra. The network infrastructure includes twisted pair cabling used for residential and business local telephone service. Programming is now managed by Sky Communications following an agreement that saw TelstraClear move out of the role of sourcing developing a competitive pay television offering. The agreement allowed TelstraClear to distribute and bill for services provided by Sky on its own Direct to Home satellite service and TelstraSaturn's cable network. InHomeTV is available on TelstraClear's Cable network in Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti. The service is not available by itself, it must be bundled with TelstraClear's telephony service. In 2005, the network was upgraded to a fully digital transmission network. Channel Lineup This lists all current digital and analogue channels. Channel numbers were changed March, 2007, to coincide with Sky channel number changes.
=Radio Stations All radio stations are only available on digital.
=Interactive Services All interactive services are only available on digital.
TechTV was available up until May 2004, when current owner Comcast halted international broadcasts. (Source TelstraClear website) Chilli (an adult channel) was also available until 2004 when CEO Alan Freeth discontinued the product on moral grounds. (Source TelstraClear staff memo) The following analogue channels are unofficially available without needing decryption:
POTS Telephone Services Residential telephone service is available in two ways: 1.Through TelstraClear directly within the areas covered by its own network, that is parts of Kapiti, Wellington and Christchurch. 2.Through a resale agreement with Telecom New Zealand for the rest of the country. Business telephone services are offered across the country, either on Telstraclears own network in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Napier, Palmerston North, Whanganui, Kapiti, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. HomePlan residential services are offered in the rest of the country via a resale agreement with Telecom. Internet TelstraClear owns two ISP's, Paradise.net and Clear Net. Both offer nationwide dialup and DSL service, and cable modem internet access within TelstraClear's own (built) network. Outside of this network, broadband connections are resold over Telecom's DSL lines. Technical information TelstraClear currently does not operate their own mobile network, they used to use Vodafone's network for cellphones, In 2007 this agreement came up for renewal, Vodafone decided not to renew the arrangement, 30,000 TelstraClear mobile customers were then scheduled to be returned to Vodafone. However, TelstraClear subsequently signed a wholesale mobile deal to access the Telecom New Zealand CDMA network and currently Telstraclear is rolling out the new mobile offering in New Zealand. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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