Telecom CEO-aspirant speaks out.

It’s too early to call it a comeback.

And certainly no one will be until we see Telecom’s next quarterly numbers, in black and white.

But the evidence indicates XT’s had a reasonably good time of it over the past month.

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ABOVE: Big chair contenders Reynolds, Ratcliffe, Quin, Crockett and Gourdie.

At an analyst brief in Sydney on May 27, Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds floated the idea of a “de-merger.”

Now, of course there’s many a game of cat-and-mouse to be played in the months before Crown Fibre Holdings selects its partner(s).

There’s 100 different arguments about how it should be defined, but there’s no doubt cloud computing is suddenly trendy.

And options are suddenly proliferating for New Zealand businesses. Local players like Iconz and Orcon are offering cloud services.

Amazon recently launched an Asia Pacific cloud service centred around a data centre in Singapore.

And last week, so did Microsoft (read NBR’s report here).