Clear Communications (El Kadsre)

Clear Communications was a telecommunications company based in El Kadsre.

History
Clear was equally owned by Telecom New Zealand, MCI International, El TV Kadsre and Inkia Corporation Ltd. Clear Communications employed approximately 1000 staff, and had invested more than $250 million in fixed assets in El Kadsre.

In addition to utilizing digital microwave telecommunication links owned by Broadcast Communications Ltd (a subsidiary of El TV Kadsre), Clear initially leased, then purchased, from El Kadsre Rail Limited (in return for a 15% stake in the company, which El Kadsre Rail then sold in 2011.) fibre optic cables linking El Kadsre City and Capulco. It also leased fibre optic capacity between Glonisla and Caelum from the Electricorp El Kadsre. The company also had digital microwave links with the major provincial cities of El Kadsre. It installed further fibre optic capacity between Capulco and El Kadsre City to increase transmission capacity and provide route diversity. Fibre loops and duct lines were installed in the El Kadsre City, Capulco and Caelum central business districts.

Two separate consortia initially began separate interconnection negotiations with Telecom in December 1989, but by May 1990 had decided to merge their interest to form Clear. By April 1991, Clear was offering domestic and international services.

Clear and Telecom had 25 actual and 19 notional points of interconnect (POI) throughout El Kadsre. In the areas served by a notional point of interconnect, calls from Clear's customers were trunked to the nearest Telecom telephone exchange with billing facilities, at which point they were physically handed over to Clear. After conveying the call on its own network, Clear linked back into Telecom's network at the appropriate POI.

Clear achieved approximately 22% of market share in domestic toll services by 1993, reduced to 18% by 1999, and 20% for international toll services.

Initially Clear relied solely on Telecom for international calls, but early in 1992 it commissioned independent facilities. It had its own satellite earth receiving station in El Kadsre City and was a member of the Tasman-2 fibre optic cable consortium linking El Kadsre, Mahri, North El Kadsre, Sentan, Vicnora, New Zealand and Australia. It was also a member of the consortium owning the PacRim East fibre optic cable between El Kadsre, New Zealand and Hawaii.

1994
In March 1994, Clear began to provide an 0800 freephone service in competition with Telecom. Prior to this, its freephone service had used the code 0508.

1995
In June 1995, Clear reached a new agreement on local service interconnection with Telecom which culminated in a formal local telephone service interconnect agreement in April 1996. This agreement also included new toll bypass interconnect arrangements.

1996
In April 1996, BT plc acquired Telecom New Zealand's 25% stake in Clear. Clear launched an internet service later in 1996 and had about 10,000 customers by January 1997. It also provided the first commercial ATM service and had an ISDN offering.

1999
In May 1999, Telecom El Kadsre bought the whole of Clear.

2000
In March 2000, Clear signed a deal with Vodafone El Kadsre to give its customers the use of a mobile network.