Computers Desktop, Laptop, Server

Apple, Dell

Compare Computers

---

Broadband Cable, DSL, Wireless

Actrix, BushWireless, ihug, Kiwilink, Orcon, Slingshot, Telecom, TelstraClear, Vodafone, Woosh

Compare Broadband

---

Cell Phones Apple, BlackBerry, HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Okta, Samsung, Sony Ericsson

Telecom, Vodafone

Compare Cell Phones

---

Mp3 Players Apple

Compare Mp3 Players

TelstraClear Broadband Internet Access Plans

Sort By: Price Lowest Price Highest Download Speed Fastest Upload Speed Fastest

	Name	Price (per month)	Download Speed	Upload Speed	Download Limit
TelstraClear	TelstraClear Highspeed 1G Free With a Package. 250MB packs at $2.95 per pack. HighSpeed 1G & 5G plans are only available as part of a package including a phone line or phone line and Digital TV. Check out InHome Broadband Packages available. Includes a cable modem provided by TelstraClear.	Free	2000 kbps	2000 kbps	10 MB
TelstraClear	TelstraClear HighSpeed 5G Free With a Package. 500MB packs at $2.95 per pack. HighSpeed 1G & 5G plans are only available as part of a package including a phone line or phone line and Digital TV. Check out InHome Broadband Packages available. Includes a cable modem provided by TelstraClear.	Free	4000 kbps	2000 kbps	50 MB
TelstraClear	PDQ Launch Add 1GB to your plan for $2.95 or 10GB for $11.95. Free up your phone line and say goodbye to dial up.	NZ$24.00	256 kbps	128 kbps	1000 MB
TelstraClear	PDQ Turbo Add 1GB to your plan for $2.95 or 10GB for $11.95. Business like download speeds, for heavier surfers who really don't like to wait.	NZ$36.00	7600 kbps	128 kbps	1000 MB
TelstraClear	PDQ Max Add 1GB to your plan for $2.95 or 10GB for $11.95. Like turbo, plus great upload speeds means you can game or send large files quickly.	NZ$44.00	7600 kbps	7600 kbps	1000 MB
TelstraClear	TelstraClear HighSpeed 10G 1G packs at $2.95 per pack	NZ$49.95	4000 kbps	2000 kbps	10 GB
TelstraClear	TelstraClear LightSpeed 20G 1G packs at $2.95 per pack.	NZ$69.95	1000 kbps	2000 kbps	20 GB
TelstraClear	TelstraClear LightSpeed 40G 2G packs at $2.95 per pack.	NZ$99.95	10000 kbps	2000 kbps	40 GB
TelstraClear	TelstraClear LightSpeed 80G 2G packs at $2.95 per pack.	NZ$139.95	10000 kbps	2000 kbps	80 GB

TelstraClear is New Zealand's second largest full-service telecommunications company.

TelstraClear is a voice and data company, providing innovative market leading products, services and customer focus to the business, government, wholesale and residential sectors with around 400,000 cusotmers in New Zealand. 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.

History
Telstra New Zealand was set up in 1996 by Telstra as part of Telstra's international expansion. Competing with both 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 a switch in Auckland 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.

Services

Subscription Television (InHomeTV)
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.

Internet
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. Outside of this network, broadband connections are resold over Telecom's DSL lines.

Technical information
TelstraClear currently does not operate their own mobile network, they instead use Vodafone's network for cellphones which means their customers will actually be using the Vodafone New Zealand network.