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| Thread ID: 82792 | 2007-09-08 06:06:00 | High Data charges for NZ mobiles | cafeg (12733) | PC World Chat |
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| 589249 | 2007-09-08 12:39:00 | There was an article in the paper saying that vodafone was not interested in investing further in NZ, on their 3G network, due to it not being worth it with regulation due to take effect. Currently their 3G network offers very limited coverage. We really need a 3rd network provider as we only rely vodafone for GSM network.If we could have another provider thats cheaper vodafone would invest surely |
Ninjabear (2948) | ||
| 589250 | 2007-09-08 14:06:00 | A 3rd, 4th and fifth provider might get some movement. As it is, Vodafone only have to beat Telecom - not a major task. Strangely, N.Z. has pretty high cell-phone adoption rates, so we must be suckers indeed. However, our cell-phone service levels make good garden fertiliser, so it's not all bad in spite of the smell. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 589251 | 2007-09-08 14:37:00 | Isn't Telstra Clear entering the mobile market? | --Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 589252 | 2007-09-08 16:51:00 | infrastructure costs are naturally going to be higher. I dont disagree but believe that most folks would be a lot more forgiving if it wasn't for the fact that telecom routinely posts profits around $800 million.....per year.... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 589253 | 2007-09-08 20:58:00 | I dont disagree but believe that most folks would be a lot more forgiving if it wasn't for the fact that telecom routinely posts profits around $800 million.....per year.... Yes exactly.. Or telecom could stop pouring money into their australian operations (AAPT)and buying up providers there building a world class network in australia and start pouring it into here instead :waughh: With all of the money thats been frittered away propping up AAPT and buying the other one they just bought we could have had everything humming along here as it should be .. If they started looking after their back door first they might not lose as many customers as they are going to lose over the next year after naked dsl becomes available next month ! Steve.. |
cafeg (12733) | ||
| 589254 | 2007-09-09 00:05:00 | Isn't Telstra Clear entering the mobile market? Yes but they are going to use Telecom's network they will be limited to what they charge and still make a profit. What we do need is a third system to come in like that crowd from S Africa want to. But they cannot afford to build cell towers everywhere. What they do in Europe is force companies that own cell towers to share them ! That is rent out the useage of the tower to other cellphone companies so they can put their gear on it, so that you only need one cell phone tower in each place not 2 or 3 ! Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 589255 | 2007-09-09 01:01:00 | Yes but they are going to use Telecom's network they will be limited to what they charge and still make a profit. What we do need is a third system to come in like that crowd from S Africa want to. But they cannot afford to build cell towers everywhere. What they do in Europe is force companies that own cell towers to share them ! That is rent out the useage of the tower to other cellphone companies so they can put their gear on it, so that you only need one cell phone tower in each place not 2 or 3 ! Regards Digby Econet, The African vaporware telco didn't want to hang their gear on other cell towers they demaded and got from the Gov the right to use Vodafones network. Then when they got that there were other excuses why they didn't set up. From memory the taxpayer has alread put $mils into this project.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
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