News & Media Items

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This page is designed to provide links to recent news events and press releases relating to CityLink; its customers and "issues broadband". If you have some relevant news that you would like listed here, then please contact us at info@citylink.co.nz.

• TeamTalk Congratulates Telecom on UFB Outcome
  24 May 2011
  TeamTalk and its wholly owned subsidiary CityLink congratulate Telecom on their Ultrafast Broadband win.

• TeamTalk's Half Year Profit up 21%
  17 Feb 2011
  In what has been a challenging time for the telecommunications industry TeamTalk is pleased to announce a result that swims against the tide.

• Media Release: TeamTalk congratulates Telecom on achieving prioritised bidder status in UFB Initiative.
  15 Dec 2010
  TeamTalk Managing Director, David Ware today congratulated Mark Ratcliffe and Telecom on achieving prioritised bidder status in the Government's Ultrafast Broadband Initiative.

• Ultra 1G Media Release 13-12-2010
  13 Dec 2010
  The Ultra 1G service provides exclusive use of symmetric 1Gigabit per sec fibre optic links directly between the customer premise and the CityLink core network, giving full benefit to the fibre optic speed advantage. Citylink monitors the overall level of usage of the Ultra 1G links and uses this to determine the overall monthly cost.

• Classic House Air Conditioning Upgrade Wednesday 24th November to Tuesday 30th November
  22 Nov 2010
  CityLink will be commencing upgrade work on the air conditioning at Classic House (formerly known as AT&T Tower) starting Wednesday the 24th November through to Tuesday 30th November.

• Generator Load Test at Classic House Saturday 20th November
  19 Nov 2010
  CityLink will be conducting a generator load test at Classic House (formerly known as AT&T Tower) from 3pm this Saturday, 20th November.

• CityLink Service "Brownout" Period Christmas and New Year
  6 Oct 2010
  Christmas and New Year Period December 2010 and January 2011

• Cable Replacement on Tinakori Road, Wellington
  30 Sep 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing network maintenance as follows:

• CFH announces shortlist and negotiations for first stage roll-out of UFB
  10 Sep 2010
  CityLink is the New Zealand leader in Open Access Networking. We are pleased to see the progress provided by this announcement and look forward to being able to drive the Wellington Region Ultra Fast Broadband deployment as quickly as possible

• Network Maintenance at Datacom Building Monday 20th September 2010
  6 Sep 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance on the Ethernet network as follows:

• Network Maintenance at Datacom Building Monday 6th September 2010
  20 Aug 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance on the Ethernet network as follows:

• Annual Fire Alarm Survey at AT&T Tower, 15-17 Murphy St, Wellington Thursday 19th August 2010
  16 Aug 2010
  The annual fire alarm survey is now due as part of the Code of Compliance for the building Warrant of Fitness for AT&T Tower.

• Fibre Maintenance along Adelaide Road, Sunday 15th August 2010
  6 Aug 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the robustness of our fibre network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance work as follows:

• Power Maintenance at Telco Building Auckland on Sunday 18th & Monday 19th July
  13 Jul 2010
  CityLink has been notified by the building owner of the Telco Building, 16 Kingston Street, Auckland that further maintenance to the building power supply necessitates an outage on Sunday 18th July. This will be occurring 18 hours ahead of our own 6 monthly UPS maintenance, which is scheduled to occur during our usual maintenance window, from midnight to 6am Monday morning, 19th July

• Network Maintenance at Datacom House 19th July 2010
  6 Jul 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing a switch upgrade at Datacom House as follows:

• Relocation of aerial cable on Willis Street, Wellington.
  17 Jun 2010
  This is for information only and no outage is expected.

• Power Maintenance at Telco Building Auckland on Sunday 23rd May
  20 Apr 2010
  CityLink has been notified by the building owner of the Telco Building, 16 Kingston Street, Auckland that a new gate meter for the incoming power supply to the building needs to be installed necessitating an outage.

• Power Maintenance at AT&T Tower Telehousing Facility Friday 23rd April
  19 Apr 2010
  CityLink will be replacing the circuit breakers in the Essential Services board at AT&T Tower in the basement server room and Telehousing Facility on Friday 23rd April between 08:30 and 09:00hrs.

• CityLink CEO Departs
  1 Apr 2010
  CityLink today announced the departure of the company's founding CEO Neil de Wit, effective from 30 April.

• Pacific Fibre - fast, inexpensive, unlimited broadband for Australia and New Zealand
  12 Mar 2010
  Three of the country's highest-profile businessmen plan to build a $900 million submarine communications cable linking New Zealand, Australia and the United States