Australia's Telstra has confirmed that it has entered into discussions regarding the potential sale of TelstraClear, its struggling New Zealand fixed line unit, to Vodafone New Zealand. Reuters reports the Australian firm as saying that it has been approached by Vodafone New Zealand, the country's largest mobile operator by subscribers, about selling TelstraClear, which has been stung by lower revenues and high capital expenditures in recent years, due to the costs of rebuilding its network infrastructure in Christchurch, following the earthquake in 2011. Alongside its hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) network in Wellington, Kapiti and Christchurch, TelstraClear also possesses potentially valuable spectrum in the 1900MHz and 2100MHz frequency bands, which could conceivably be used for the deployment of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology
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OVETEL Vodafone sounds out Telstra over TelstraClear deal
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