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.
Austar United Communications held an initial investment of 42% in TelstraClear before selling it back to Telstra.
[citation needed] In March 2003, TelstraClear unveiled a new advertising campaign highlighting what the company saw as the increased competition and benefits the merger would create for New Zealand.
[1] By May 2013, Vodafone said it had made good progress merging the two businesses, and that the TelstraClear branding would completely disappear by April or May 2013.
[7] Services are available from the "on-net" areas, where TelstraClear has its own network technology based on copper wires or fibre.
These areas include parts of Central Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Napier, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Kapiti, Wellington, and Christchurch, with actual technology varying based on reach and type.
Business telephone services are available in 'on-net' ISDN inner city suburbs with basic and primary rate lines.
The service provided interconnection into Australia via either Telstra GWAN or TelstraClear operated TransTasman lines.
With the acquisition of Sytec and the formation of Enterprise and Government division, TelstraClear provided managed network solutions, ICT services (such as desktop and device management and co-location), enterprise comms and contact center solutions.
TelstraClear operated the Hybrid Fibre Cable pay television network under the brand "InHomeTV".
The network infrastructure includes twisted pair cabling used for residential and business local telephone service.