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

Richard Hammond has spoken out about the XT shambles, saying the launch was "good fun" but he hadn't personally tested the service.

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.

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

More bad press over Telecom's calamity-prone XT network saw the telco giant's stocks take a hit yesterday, with its share price dropping 6c after the resignation of its chief technical officer.

Paul Reynolds says as CEO, he is there to lead Telecom through the "tough times" - something he could not achieve if he were to resign.

Telecom CEO Paul Reynolds says XT technology partner Alcatel is on notice over the network's constant failures, while announcing the company's plan to compensate affected XT customers.

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The Government says there is little it can do to help customers frustrated with Telecom's XT network failures.

Telecom's CEO will today speak about yesterday's XT network outage, which came as the NZ head of the company that built the network announced his resignation.

A lobby group says mobile customers will pay if the telecommunications industry is not regulated.

The head of the company that built Telecom's XT network has announced he is leaving the company - as the system collapsed again last night.

The Commerce Commission, in a split decision, has rejected regulation as a means to reduce the costs of mobile phone calls.

A new website that allows users to find out where and when people are having sex has just been launched.

Designer labels including Kate Sylvester, Karen Walker and Huffer are being hocked off on Trade Me at heavily reduced prices.

Mark Webster reports from day one of the Webstock conference in Wellington.

Scott Thomas, Design Director of the historic Obama Presidential campaign, spoke about 'gut feeling' at Wellington's Webstock conference.

Telecom admits a "serious hardware failure" was responsible for a widespread outage in its much-vaunted XT mobile network.

Telecommunications reporter Helen Twose talks to 80s hair bands, gets tweeted at by a shrub, sees Audi's Wi-Fi-toting A8 and meets a guy paid to roll his eyes at the Mobile World Congress.

Microsoft has pulled Facebook and LinkedIn into Outlook using its Social Connector add-on beta.