Research and Markets: New Report Highlights Growth Drivers and Tracks the Latest Developments at the Telecom Corporation of New Zealand

Business Wire, March 4, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84731) has announced the addition of "Telecom Corporation of New Zealand" - Company Analyses to their offering.

This report includes an extensive collection of analyses on Telecom Corporation of New Zealand and the challenges that lie ahead for the nation's incumbent telecom operator and service provider, as the telecommunications market undergoes massive changes as it moves towards 2007 and 2008. During 2005 through to Telecom was going through an investment phase: rapidly rolling out broadband - both infrastructure and services and attempting to grow market share in the broadband, mobile and data markets. The long-awaited government policy on local loop unbundling has finally been introduced in New Zealand, with the draft being finalised in 2007. This will open the way for a range of new innovative packages, built around, for example, VoIP, IPTV and other Internet media services. In a surprising move in June 2006, Telecom put forward initial plans for a voluntary operational separation of its retail and wholesale divisions. An analysis of this event and subsequent developments are also included. In May 2007 Telecom New Zealand officially acquired 100% of PowerTel. In May 2007 Telecom New Zealand officially acquired 100% of PowerTel. The deal strengthens the base of Telecom's Australian subsidiary, AAPT, and allows PowerTel to continue to grow its business to business and wholesale operations.

Areas Covered:

* Telecom New Zealand - strategy Overview

* Strategic priorities in New Zealand for 2008

* Australian strategic imperatives

* The continued implementation of the Hyperbaric programme

* Integration of PowerTel and AAPT

* Synergies in Trans-Tasman operations

* Business Overview

* Drivers of growth - broadband and IT solutions

* New Zealand Operations - margins under pressure

* Australian Operations

* Analysis of the reforms on operational separation

* Structural changes are proceeding - September 2007

* Telecom New Zealand wants full structural separation - April 2007

* AAPT aligns with PowerTel

* How to spend the Yellow Pages money - March 2007

* Trans-Tasman blaming games

* A new CEO for Telecom New Zealand - Farewell Teresa Gattung - February 2007

* What is that new direction?

* Telecom - third time lucky in Australia? - February 2007

* Telecom - analysis - end of 2006

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c84731