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Telecom has announced two new services: Xtra has launched Xtranet _ a private network solution for businesses, allowing nationwide access, user authentication, distributed billing; and it is installing new Ericsson software into its digital mobile phone network to give customers buying new mobiles even better voice quality. There are also proposals to integrate Netway and Telecom Business Systems (TBS) into Telecom's core corporate customer servicing operations, and it may also contract out its operator services in the future. Following a review of its operations First Media will close from 31 July.

Christchurch cable specialist, MM Cables, has secured around $5m of orders for New Zealand's first alternative telecommunications network, Saturn, currently under construction in Wellington. Phone 0-3-348 5199.

A naming and blessing ceremony took place in May of the 220 metre tunnel boring machine (TBM) which is creating the route for Mercury Energy's $110m tunnel. This will reinforce Auckland's CBD power supply, . The machine was named "Taranga", and will work on the 9.2 km tunnel which will run from Penrose to Hobson Street and carry two 110 kV cables. The CBD tunnel project is being undertaken by Downer Construction and tunnel boring specialists, SELI, from Italy, and is due for completion late in 1999. Phone 0-9-520 8440.

IBM and Symantec are to deliver a single family of anti-virus software products marketed under the Norton AntiVirus brand name. For more information email gwencox@us.ibm.com.

Clear Communications has launched a new low speed data service enabling businesses to build more flexible and cost-effective networks. The 2 Mbps and Inverse Multiplexing service, the first of its kind in the country, offers businesses scalability and the choice of access speed within one ATM or frame-to-ATM network. Phone 0-9-912 4400.

Siemens AG is integrating its information technology businesses: Public Communications Networks, Private Communications Systems and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG into a single organisational structure called Information and Communication (I&C). The I&C group, with combined sales of $50 billion, will have three groups consisting of: Services, Networks and Products.The move reflects the breaking down of barriers between internal and external information systems in the market place.