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.

• Network Maintenance at Datacom Building Monday 20th September 2010
  6 Sep 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance on the Ethernet network as follows:

• Network Maintenance at Datacom Building Monday 6th September 2010
  20 Aug 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance on the Ethernet network as follows:

• Annual Fire Alarm Survey at AT&T Tower, 15-17 Murphy St, Wellington Thursday 19th August 2010
  16 Aug 2010
  The annual fire alarm survey is now due as part of the Code of Compliance for the building Warrant of Fitness for AT&T Tower.

• Fibre Maintenance along Adelaide Road, Sunday 15th August 2010
  6 Aug 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the robustness of our fibre network, CityLink staff will be performing maintenance work as follows:

• Power Maintenance at Telco Building Auckland on Sunday 18th & Monday 19th July
  13 Jul 2010
  CityLink has been notified by the building owner of the Telco Building, 16 Kingston Street, Auckland that further maintenance to the building power supply necessitates an outage on Sunday 18th July. This will be occurring 18 hours ahead of our own 6 monthly UPS maintenance, which is scheduled to occur during our usual maintenance window, from midnight to 6am Monday morning, 19th July

• Network Maintenance at Datacom House 19th July 2010
  6 Jul 2010
  As part of an ongoing programme to improve the reliability and performance of our network, CityLink staff will be performing a switch upgrade at Datacom House as follows:

• Relocation of aerial cable on Willis Street, Wellington.
  17 Jun 2010
  This is for information only and no outage is expected.

• Power Maintenance at Telco Building Auckland on Sunday 23rd May
  20 Apr 2010
  CityLink has been notified by the building owner of the Telco Building, 16 Kingston Street, Auckland that a new gate meter for the incoming power supply to the building needs to be installed necessitating an outage.

• Power Maintenance at AT&T Tower Telehousing Facility Friday 23rd April
  19 Apr 2010
  CityLink will be replacing the circuit breakers in the Essential Services board at AT&T Tower in the basement server room and Telehousing Facility on Friday 23rd April between 08:30 and 09:00hrs.

• CityLink CEO Departs
  1 Apr 2010
  CityLink today announced the departure of the company's founding CEO Neil de Wit, effective from 30 April.

• 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