Comments on: Fixing the Telecom train wreck http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/fixing-the-telecom-train-wreck/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Thu, 24 May 2012 22:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Juha http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/fixing-the-telecom-train-wreck/#comment-1809 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:49:52 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/2007/06/29/fixing-the-telecom-train-wreck/#comment-1809 Telecom’s successful moves are… two I think: the investment in the Southern Cross Cable and cutting costs by outsourcing network management to Alcatel. However, Telecom passed on a chance to buy the half of SCC that it doesn’t own for some reason, and now Alcatel has them by the short and curlies because it runs both the fixed and mobile networks.

Apart from Ferrit and Australia, the 027 CDMA network is looking like a dubious investment now. What happened to all the plans to become a player in the content market, through IPTV and VoD? Who remembers Telecom’s Video Shed in the Viaduct? Nothing came out of that.

Telecom’s focused on defending existing revenue streams, a strategy that’s worked because it has no competition. I think the idea is now to move on from that to own the national infrastructure for others to rent out. Trouble is, that infrastructure is dated – where’s the promised NGN? – so it’s not exactly a great deal for anyone.

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