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.

• 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

• CityLink Survey Winner Drawn Today
  19 Feb 2010
  

• Construction company partners with CityLink in fibre proposal
  2 Feb 2010
  Construction company Fulton Hogan will partner with Wellington's CityLink in its bid to build an underground fibre-optic network connecting homes and businesses in the Wellington region.

• CityLink vows to put fibre underground
  1 Feb 2010
  Citylink has promised it would bury all the fibre-optic cable it hopes to lay to homes and businesses in Wellington after sources predicted an "aerial battle" over Vector's plans to string cable over power poles in Auckland.

• CityLink sponsor LCA 2010 conference 18-23 January
  13 Jan 2010
  CityLink are sponsoring the LCA 2010 (linux.conf.au) conference being held at the Wellington Convention Centre from Monday 18th January to Saturday 23rd January 2010 by providing CafeNET tokens for attendees on the day.

• CityLink sponsor Drupal South Wellington 2010 conference 23/24 January
  13 Jan 2010
  CityLink are sponsoring the Drupal South Wellington 2010 conference being held in the upstairs function room of The Brewery Bar & Restaurant on Wellington's waterfront on Saturday and Sunday 23rd and 24th January 2010.

• Power metering upgrade work at Telco Building, Auckland 14th November 2009
  9 Nov 2009
  The building owner of the Telco Building, 16 Kingston Street, Auckland requires a metering upgrade of both the Level 1 power supply and the gate meter at street level.

• Media Release 4th Nov: Fibre to the farm critical
  4 Nov 2009
  The New Zealand Regional Fibre Group is backing the Government's planned rural broadband initiative.

• Fibre to provide multi-billion dollar boost for economy
  21 Oct 2009
  New Zealand's first globally competitive communications network is a step closer following today's release of the Government's "Invitation to Participate" in its ultra-fast fibre broadband initiative.

• CityLink Service "Brownout" Period Christmas and New Year
  9 Oct 2009
  

• Regional fibre group adopts national technical standards
  23 Sep 2009
  The New Zealand Regional Fibre Group (NZRFG) has adopted a set of technical and service standards to ensure consistency in the national roll out of fibre optic networks.

• CityLink Encouraged by the Hon. Steven Joyce's Announcement
  16 Sep 2009
  CityLink is very pleased and encouraged by today's announcement outlining the Government's investment proposal for Ultra-fast Broadband in New Zealand.

• CityLink Receives Recognition in Wellington Today
  16 Sep 2009
  Earlier this year CityLink was the recipient of the Wellington Gold Awards - Cyber Gold Award, Wellington Today finds out why and in the process learns how CityLink is delivering tomorrow's communications today!

• Maintenance work on CityLink Network 7th September
  28 Aug 2009
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance on the entire Wellington Ethernet Network as follows:

• CityLink sponsor Software Freedom Day Sunday 20th September
  21 Aug 2009
  CityLink are sponsoring two upcoming IT events jointly organised by Unlimited Potential and other ICT companies by providing CafeNET tokens for attendees on the day;

• CityLink sponsor "Gadgets, Games & Geeks 09" Monday 24th August
  21 Aug 2009
  CityLink are sponsoring two upcoming IT events jointly organised by Unlimited Potential and other ICT companies by providing CafeNET tokens for attendees on the day;

• Short Power Outage at CMC Building Thursday 30th July
  23 Jul 2009
  CityLink will be installing an A/B power switch, at the request of Aotea Pathology, at the CMC Building, 89 Courtenay Place on Thursday 30th July at 6.00pm.

• Power Maintenance at Grand Plimmer Tower 7:00pm Thursday 16th July
  16 Jul 2009
  CityLink has been notified by the building manager that there will be an approximately 3 minute outage at Grand Plimmer Tower, 2 Gilmer Terrace to carry out necessary power maintenance on Thursday 16th July at 7.00pm

• Power Outage at Plimmer Tower Sunday 5th July
  30 Jun 2009
  CityLink has been notified by the building manager that there will be a 12 hour shutdown of the main electrical switchboard in Grand Plimmer Tower, 2 Gilmer Street to carry out necessary maintenance on Sunday 5th July from 12.00pm

• Short Outage at CityLink today 25th June approx 12:30pm
  25 Jun 2009
  A short outage of 2 minutes was experienced on the CityLink Ethernet network at approximately 12:30pm today 25th June 2009.