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Telecom gives 2degrees SIM cards to hospital staff

Telecom is giving out rival 2degrees' services to key hospital staff on XT in case the unstable network goes down again.

Telecom email ignores XT

Frank Mount's email to staff

Nokia, Skype join forces

NZ sharemarket posts modest gains

<i>Fran O'Sullivan</i>: Failures make us look third world

Vector pushes fibre bid

Telecom's rivals flooded with inquiries

XT exec was already due to leave

<i>Editorial:</i> Hold regulation threat in reserve for phone firms

Market shrugs off early weakness to close up

Cause of XT outages still unknown, Alcatel says

The cause of four outages to Telecom's XT mobile network since Christmas remain unknown, the head of Alcatel-Lucent says.

XT failures grounds for customers to leave network

Customers wanting to get out of Telecom XT contracts may have grounds to do so - but only if they have been the victim of repeated faults in the network.

XT failure: Cause of outages remains a mystery

Telecom admits it has still not determined the exact cause of its crippling XT network outages.

<i>Adam Gifford:</i> Decision time in mobile market