ICEPICK

TelstraClear was an interesting mix of Telco, ISP, and content provider, with a cable TV network in Wellington and an eye on the emerging delivery of video over a data connection. Initially, this was over T-box, a set-top box that competed with MySky. We built the user interface for the T-box, an interesting challenge for web developers as a TV remote is a very limited user interface compared with a mouse and keyboard... Clearview was a great company and I have many friends from those days, we worked on some high profile projects, doing some quite leading-edge work. I bought shares in the company and became a director. I can't say that a young and feckless Simon offered much in the way of governance, but being on the board of an IT company with 50 or so employees was educational... 1999 was an interesting time in mobile telephony, it saw the first steps into data capability, initially with Circuit Switched Data, then GPRS. At this time we were working closely with Vodafone and Clear..