New Zealand business publication Stuff.co.nz said that Alcatel-Lucent is facing a NZ$27.6 million (US$23 million) “commercial risk” related to its build of Telecom New Zealand’s troubled XT HSPA network. The company classified the potential payments as “expected claims resulting from customer contractual obligations recognised as commercial risks,” in documents filed with the country’s Companies Office. The equipment vendor previously said that it had reached a settlement with Telecom where no liability was admitted and the cost split between various business and country units of Alcatel-Lucent, Stuff.co.nz reported.

Telecom was hit by a number of high-profile failures for the XT network early last year, commissioning an independent report which said that “the rate of customer acquisition was too fast for the network in the early stages of its deployment. This created a number of compounding issues that contributed to the reliability and performance issues experienced and the partial network outages.” The two companies also made a number of management changes following the outages. Telecom previously made NZ$10 million worth of loyalty and compensation payments to customers affected by the problems, according to reports.