Telecom has called time on its all-you-can-eat Big Time broadband plan as it struggles to manage traffic demand created by the plan.

When the industry is heading along the right path, it is perhaps ironic that the largest step is the most uncertain, writes Mike Cranna.

The resignation of Telecom's chief financial officer Russ Houlden is the fifth by a senior staffer at the embattled telco this year.

Telecom CFO Russ Houlden is resigning, leaving the company to join a UK company.

Broadband speeds are improving but are lagging outside Auckland because ISPs are installing most of their equipment in that city.

A Vodafone marketing deal has pushed the Commerce Commission to recommend the Govt regulate mobile phone 'termination rates'.

Telecom's XT network failed because the network and supporting operations were not ready to manage the levels of traffic experienced.

An independent review into Telecom's XT mobile network has found it grew too big, too quickly.

Telecom's profits for three months to the end of March have fallen 38 per cent from $159m to $97m.

The Auckland-based telco will report a 47 percent decline in profit and more downbeat news could still come, according to analyst Guy Hallwright.