While several of Auckland’s reporters were waiting for the Mark Bryers hearing, lawyers at the Auckland District Court were bemoaning Telecom’s XT network and its obvious failures.
It’s been a rough few days for Telecom, its former CTO (chief transformation officer) Frank Mount and the man at its helm Paul Reynolds.
It’s not a good sign when professionals such as lawyers are having problems contacting their clients and colleagues. Nor is a good sign when Mr Reynolds’s multi-million dollar XT network becomes a chuckling matter among the country’s legal fraternity.
It can’t be a good week to be a Telecom employee.
1:27AM Saturday 11 February 2012
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Comments and questions4
Does this really qualify as an article, or are you just trying to fill up space on the NBR Technology section??
Who gives a rats if lawyers are annoyed about XT, "ANY" XT customer is just as important as any old lawyer ffs!
Yup, this is a pathetic piece of journalism. Any groups of people affected by the outage will be complaining about it, but somehow complaints from lawyers means it's a bad sign and is newsworthy?
Who allows this drivel to be posted in the first place?
Come on guys - it must be pretty tough operating from the car park down the road without XT ... think of the impact on their fee income (sorry "the many injustices that must inevitably result and the impact on those vulnerable members of society denied the fearless legal representation that is their right").
besides, someone's got to counter Ernie Newman's tongue bathing of Paul Reynolds.
http://www.tuanz.org.nz/blog/e379f711-b2b6-4423-9e32-4a8bf9f301db/cafc244c-2eab-4f56-999c-978f9582ca64.html
Seriously, Ernie. You're supposed to represent the telco users, not be used by Telecom.
I feel dirty.
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