TelstraClear
TelstraClear Limited was New Zealand's second-largest telecommunications company before being acquired by Vodafone New Zealand in October 2012, previous to which it was a subsidiary of Australian company Telstra.
| Company type | Subsidiary of Vodafone New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Predecessor | |
| Founded | November 2001 (as TelstraClear) |
| Fate | Acquisition |
| Successor | Vodafone New Zealand |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Products | |
Number of employees | 1300 |
It provided residential line rental services, internet services, IT services, security services, cable TV/cable modem and mobile telephone services to 70,000 subscribers on its network in Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti. Overall the company had around 200,000 customers.
In 2004, TelstraClear began offering residential line HomePlan services including broadband outside those areas where it has its own network, reselling the ADSL wholesale product from Telecom New Zealand, and investing millions in local loop unbundling, which entailed TelstraClear installing its own equipment in Telecom exchanges (the Telecom infrastructure business later became Chorus Limited).