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Posted: 2008-08-20 12:12:43
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
I just came across this:
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/tonyhughes/5640
How crap is that?! $400/month for only text and voice calls, plus they're going to stick the stupid fair usage thing on it? That's ridiculous! That amount of money on prepay would get me all the texts and calls I could ever want for at least a year!
Not everyone earns more than $1.75 million per year, Mr Telecom CEO.
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Posted: 2008-08-20 14:49:45
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Hmph! Looks badly thought out to me.
1) They can't afford to lose the revenue that high users spend.
2) They obviously didn't learn a thing from the Go Large debarcle.
I'd say die Telecom, die! if it wasn't for the fact that Vodafone as an unchallenged monopoly would be worse still than where we are now.
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Posted: 2008-08-20 15:36:46
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maybe change the title to the not so great new zealand telecommunications battle
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Posted: 2008-08-21 11:29:36
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Looks like TelstraClear are going to win the race to become the third mobile network in NZ. They are releasing a deal that's being touted by over excited media tosser's as creating a price war in the mobile market. Yeah right...
Here's their deal
It's basically adding a cheap mobile plan when you switch your landline and broadband over to TelstraClear that's all and the $3.00 per MB for Casual Data bites! Plus you need to sign up for 2 yrs and the Nokia 6275i they give you is not new or inspiring and is a CDMA phone so who cares?
Ho hum, Vodafone won't be particularly worried by this deal.
Typical of our dumb media to fall hook line and sinker for slick marketing and spin.
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Posted: 2008-08-31 02:05:16
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hopefully b&w will be gsm otherwise new zealands mobile network will be f..ed
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Posted: 2008-08-31 05:01:44
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Well, there are network owners and there are VMNOs.
Virtual Mobile Network Operators are companies that have an agreement to use another company's network infrastucture.
TelstraClear are a VMNO using Telecom's infrastucture.
Black & White are a VMNO using Vodafone's infrastucture.
It looks to me like TC are dipping their toe in the water. They'll need alot more than this to make an impact in the mobile market.
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Posted: 2008-08-31 07:38:07
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Yeah and Black & White will offer SE phones too, according to the SE website when you try to send settings over the air to your phone. It has Vodafone and Black & White as your two options.
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Posted: 2008-08-31 07:43:18
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yep thats how I found out about black and white (well that and a google search)
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Posted: 2008-08-31 10:04:49
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
Yeah, that SE over the air settings thing doesn't work. Its crap.
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Posted: 2008-08-31 10:48:33
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