Telecom NZ outsources CPE supply to Brightstar for three more years

Avnet (NYSE: AVT), the parent company of distributor Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS), has snapped up BrightStar Partners (BSP), a Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based, $10 million consulting specialist in IBM (NYSE: IBM) business analytics and performance management, and BSP Software, its software development unit, in a move expected to add services depth to the company. Neither party disclosed terms of t

Samsung told The Korea Times on Monday that it will end its LCD panel supply relationship with Apple as of next year. That’s according to a “senior Samsung source” who declined to be identified, citing insufficient margins owing to Apple’s supply pricing strategy.

The New Zealand Government has tabled the legislative changes that would apply if Telecom NZ were to structurally separate, as it has proposed to do should it be selected to rollout the Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband network.

In a deal that will precipitate its structural separation Telecom New Zealand has won the lion's share of Government contracts for the rollout of the Ultrafast Broadband Network that will deliver fibre to 75 percent of New Zealand homes by 2019.

Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: SecurityMacquarie Telecom has won a five year contract to supply cyber security services to a number of Australian Government agencies.

NetComm has added Telecom New Zealand to the string of telco customers around the world that have taken  its combined 3G modem, router and WiFi access point products.

Worldwide hotel chain, the Accor Group, has signed a three year framework agreement with telephony provider, Aastra, for the supply of telephone systems and services on a worldwide basis, except for Etap Hotel and Hotel F1.

BigAir (ASX BGL) has signed a strategic master supply agreement (MSA) with NTT Australia, the local subsidiary NTT Communications, the international and long distance service arm of Japanese telco giant NTT that enables BigAir to supply fixed wireless services as an integral part of a NTT Australia's communications offering to corporate customers.

Australian-owned supply chain integration solution provider, FourPL, has been signed as a new SAP channel reseller partner for Australia and New Zealand.