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TelstraClear
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TelstraClear is New Zealand's second largest full-service telecommunications company.
TelstraClear is a voice and data company with around 400,000 customers in New Zealand, fully owned by Telstra Corporation, Australia. The company provides residential line rental services, internet services, cable TV/cable modem and also mobile telephone services to 70,000 subscribers on its network in three areas (Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti).
In 2004 TelstraClear began offering residential line HomePlan services including broadband outside those areas where it has its own network, reselling a wholesale product from Telecom New Zealand.
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Telstra New Zealand was set up in 1996 by Telstra as part of Telstra's international expansion. Competing with the incumbent Telecom New Zealand, Saturn Communications and Clear Communications Telstra New Zealand initially focused on providing services to top tier international organisations who were already Telstra clients in Australia in the same way that Telecom New Zealand Australia, an Australian subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand currently does for New Zealand based customers in Australia.
Telstra slowly expanded its operations in the business market bundling Telecom New Zealand services distributed as a reseller with its own network services. It installed switches in Auckland and Wellington to manage incoming and outgoing international traffic and maintained an interconnect agreement with Telecom New Zealand and is likely to have had others with companies such as Clear Communications.
In 2000 Saturn Communications was sold by its parent company, Austar United Communications, to a new joint venture with Telstra entity that became known as TelstraSaturn.
TelstraClear was then created by the merger of Telstra's operations in New Zealand TelstraSaturn Limited and Clear Communications in 2001. Austar United Communications held an initial investment of 42% in TelstraClear before selling it back to Telstra.
TelstraClear operates the Hybrid Fibre Cable pay television network developed by Saturn Communications in Wellington, Kapiti and Christchurch, prior to the sale to Telstra. The network infrastructure includes twisted pair cabling used for residential and business local telephone service.
Programming is now managed by Sky Communications following an agreement that saw TelstraClear move out of the role of sourcing developing a competitive pay television offering. The agreement allowed TelstraClear to distribute and bill for services provided by Sky on its own Direct to Home satellite service and TelstraSaturn's cable network.
InHomeTV is available on TelstraClear's Cable network in Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti. The service is not available by itself, it must be bundled with TelstraClear's telephony service.
In 2005, the network was upgraded to a fully digital transmission network.
This lists all current digital and analogue channels. Channel numbers were changed March, 2007, to coincide with Sky channel number changes.
| Number | Channel |
|---|---|
| 1 | TV ONE |
| 2 | TV2 |
| 3 | TV3 |
| 4 | Prime |
| 5 | SKY 1 |
| 6 | UK.TV |
| 7 | Vibe (Digital only) |
| 8 | The Living Channel |
| 9 | Food Television |
| 11 | E! |
| 15 | Visitor TV (Christchurch only) (Digital only) |
| 16 | CTV (Christchurch only) |
| 17 | Discovery Travel & Living |
| 18 | TBN |
| 19 | Māori Television |
| 20 | SKY Movies |
| 21 | SKY Movies 2 (Digital only) |
| 22 | SKY Movies Greats |
| 23 | MGM |
| 24 | TCM |
| 25 | Rialto Channel |
| 28 | SKY Box Office Previews |
| 30 | SKY Sport 1 |
| 31 | SKY Sport 2 |
| 32 | SKY Sport 3 |
| 33 | SKY Sport Highlights (Digital only) |
| 34 | ESPN |
| 35 | TAB Trackside |
| 36 | The Rugby Channel |
| 40 | Disney Channel |
| 41 | Nickelodeon |
| 42 | Cartoon Network |
| 44 | SKY Box Office Pay per view guide (Analogue only, Digital customers can use the interactive PPV guide) |
| 45-59 | SKY Box Office Movies (Analogue only, Digital customers use channels 201-227) |
| 45 | Playhouse Disney Channel (Digital only) |
| 50 | City TV (from late November 2007) |
| 51 | Triangle Television (from late November 2007) |
| 60 | MTV New Zealand (Digital only) |
| 62 | Juice TV |
| 63 | J2 |
| 64 | C4 |
| 65 | Alt TV (from late November 2007) |
| 70 | Discovery Channel |
| 71 | Crime & Investigation Network (Digital only) |
| 72 | National Geographic Channel |
| 73 | The History Channel |
| 74 | Documentary Channel (Digital only) |
| 75 | Animal Planet |
| 79 | The Arts Channel (Digital only) |
| 90 | Sky News NZ |
| 91 | CNN |
| 92 | Fox News (Digital only) |
| 93 | BBC World |
| 94 | Deutsche Welle (Digital only) |
| 96 | Bloomberg Television (Digital only) |
| 97 | Saturn Scan |
| 98 | Saturn Weather |
| 99 | Saturn Choose (Analogue only, Digital customers can use the interactive EPG guide) |
| 111 | Shine TV (from late November 2007) |
| 201-227 | SKY Box Office Movies (Digital only, Analogue customers use channels 45-59) |
| 300 | KTV1 (Digital only) |
| 301 | KTV2 (Digital only) |
| 302 | JTV (Digital only) |
| 303 | CTV1 (Digital only) |
| 304 | CTV2 (Digital only) |
| 305 | CTV3 (Digital only) |
| 306 | CTV4 (Digital only) |
| 307 | CTV5 (Digital only) |
| 308 | CTV6 (Digital only) |
| 309 | CTV7 (Digital only) |
| 310 | CCTV-9 (from late November 2007) |
| 315 | STAR Plus Hindi (Digital only) |
All radio stations are only available on digital.
- Channel 400 SKY Digital Music NZ Chart
- Channel 401 SKY Digital Music Pop
- Channel 402 SKY Digital Music Smooth
- Channel 403 SKY Digital Music Grooves
- Channel 404 SKY Digital Music Jazz
- Channel 405 SKY Digital Music House
- Channel 406 SKY Digital Music 50s & 60s
- Channel 407 SKY Digital Music Party
- Channel 408 SKY Digital Music Rock
- Channel 409 SKY Digital Music Country
- Channel 410 SKY Digital Music Classical
- Channel 411 SKY Digital Music Kids
- Channel 412 SKY Digital Music Blues
- Channel 413 SKY Digital Music Theme
- Channel 500 Kiwi FM
- Channel 501 Radio New Zealand National
- Channel 502 Radio New Zealand Concert
- Channel 503 Niu
- Channel 504 George FM
- Channel 510 Core Internet Radio
- Channel 511 The Cheese
All interactive services are only available on digital.
- Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) - Television listing information.
- Pay Per View (PPV) Guide - Sky Box Office listing information.
TechTV was available up until May 2004, when current owner Comcast halted international broadcasts. (Source TelstraClear website)
Chilli (an adult channel) was also available until 2004 when CEO Alan Freeth discontinued the product on moral grounds. (Source TelstraClear staff memo)
The following analogue channels are unofficially available without needing decryption:
- TV One
- TV2
- TV3
- Prime
- Māori Television
- Sky Box Office Previews
- Sky Box Office Pay per view guide
- C4
- TBN
- Saturn Scan
- Saturn Weather
- Saturn Choose
- The Radio Network
Residential telephone service is available in two ways:
1.Through TelstraClear directly within the areas covered by its own network, that is parts of Kapiti, Wellington and Christchurch. 2.Through a resale agreement with Telecom New Zealand for the rest of the country.
Business telephone services are offered across the country, either on Telstraclears own network in Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Napier, Palmerston North, Whanganui, Kapiti, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. HomePlan residential services are offered in the rest of the country via a resale agreement with Telecom.
TelstraClear owns two ISP's, Paradise.net and Clear Net. Both offer nationwide dialup and DSL service, and cable modem internet access within TelstraClear's own (built) network. Capable of speeds up to 10mb/s this makes it New Zealands fastest Home broadband offering. Outside of this network, broadband connections are resold over Telecom's DSL lines.
TelstraClear currently does not operate their own mobile network, they used to use Vodafone's network for cellphones, In 2007 this agreement came up for renewal, Vodafone decided not to renew the arrangement, 30,000 TelstraClear mobile customers were then scheduled to be returned to Vodafone. However, TelstraClear subsequently signed a wholesale mobile deal to access the Telecom New Zealand CDMA network and currently Telstraclear is rolling out the new mobile offering in New Zealand.