New Zealand's second-largest internet provider, TelstraClear, has reinstated its email services for more than half of its customers.

The company officials stated that engineers have been working since 5pm on Monday to fix a serious issue that affected nearly 180,000 accounts, including Paradise ones. Users were allowed to send mails but were unable to receive them, and at times could not access their accounts online.

In Christchurch about 13,000 TelstraClear customers had to work offline due to a software fault, but the broadband service has been restored to all customers by 7.30 pm today. TelstraClear Spokeswoman Diane Robinson shared that half of the Company's internet clients were affected by the disruption of the service.

It was recently noted that TelstraClear was to retain 70 New Zealand based roles which were located in Christchurch, within its residential contact centre.

It was also noted that in Kapiti the left over 50 roles, plus temporary staff will, would be transitioned provider in the next three months.

TelstraClear, a unit of Australia's Telstra Corp. begins to offer a 3G mobile service for its New Zealand business customers Thursday with plans to triple its devices in the market over the next three years.

As the New Zealand Government goes ahead with its plans of rolling out its ultra fast broadband internet service, the country telecommunications giant TelstraClear has shared that it is testing out a new IPTV service that might make it an appealing player in the project. The testing of the service has been finished in Whangarei using Northpower's fiber network, which is currently used by the company for its broadband and phone lines.

The Commerce Commission's final telecommunication service obligation (TSO) has finally announced that telecom firms such as Vodafone, TelstraClear and other telcos would share an extra $10.7 million of costs. The amount would be paid toward providing home line and dial-up internet service access to around 58,000 non-commercially-viable rural customers.