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Jet stream (disambiguation)

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JetStream and Mobile JetStream are two brand names used by Telecom New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand is a Wellington, New Zealand-based telephone company and, through its subdivision Xtra , an internet service provider. It has been run as a publicly-traded private company since 1990....
to market its retail and resale ADSL-based fixed line and CDMA2000

CDMA2000

CDMA2000 is a hybrid 2.5G / 3G technology of mobile telecommunications Standardizations that use CDMA, a multiple access scheme for digital radio, to send voice, data, and Signalling data between mobile phones and cell sites....
-based 3G

3G is the third generation of tele standards and technology for mobile networking, superseding 2.5G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union family of standards under the IMT-2000....
wireless

Wireless

Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short or long ....
Internet access

Internet access

Internet access refers to the means by which users connect to the Internet....
offerings respectively. The retail ADSL offering from its own Internet service provider

Internet service provider

An Internet service provider is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet. The ISP connects to its customers using a data transmission technology appropriate for delivering Internet Protocol datagrams, such as dial-up, DSL, cable modem or dedicated high-speed interconnects....
(ISP), Xtra

Xtra (ISP)

Xtra Limited , is New Zealand's largest Internet service provider, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand. Xtra offers various internet services including Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line and dial-up access connections within New Zealand and has been doing so since its inception in the mid 1990s....
, is now more commonly referred to by the company as Xtra Broadband, though the JetStream brand is still in use.

Retail ADSL offerings (using Telecom

Telecom New Zealand

TelstraClear

TelstraClear is New Zealand's second-largest telecommunications company and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Telstra Corporation , with around 400,000 customers....
were often sold under the resale

Reseller

A reseller is a company or individual that purchases good or Service with the intention of reselling them rather than consuming or using them....
option, and many have now been migrated to retail plans that either use Telecom's wholesale

Wholesale

Wholesaling, historically called jobbing, is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users, or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services....
d or ADSL offerings.

Like Xtra, these other ISPs now tend to avoid using the JetStream names in their up-to-date ADSL marketing

Marketing

Marketing is defined by the American Marketing Association as the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large....
collateral.

Due to its original use by Telecom, ADSL is now what many New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
ers refer to as JetStream, occasionally also applying the term to broadband

Broadband

The term broadband can have different meanings in different contexts. The term's meaning has undergone substantial shifts....
in general, though with the apparent withdrawal of use by Telecom of the brand name, this is decreasing.

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