A new dawn for Chorus but what’s the Mattr with Spark?

A new dawn for Chorus but what’s the Mattr with Spark?
Spark needs to focus. (Image: NZME)
Paul McBeth
Executives love simplification.  The word rolls off the tongue as shorthand for all sorts of ways to cut costs, be it cutting jobs, ditching products or services that don’t stack up or throwing out dead-end strategies.  It’s easy to scoff at yet another piece of corporate jargon designed to soften decisions from on high that will hurt people at the coalface, but it does have its uses in that things often become, well, simpler.  Take the diverging fortunes of former Telecom pals, Chorus and Spark.  Broadband netwo...

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