Which has been the worst new Telecom/Spark Product launch

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Behodar

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#2323581 23-Sep-2019 22:12

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I remember seeing somewhere in Theresa Gattung's memoirs something along the lines of Telecom couldn't launch another GSM network in competition with Vodafone, as apparently the Government of the day wouldn't allow it, so they had to go with CDMA.

Mmmmm CDMA - from memory it had the worst voice quality of any phone I had ever used.

Your memory is different from mine; I switched from Vodafone to Telecom in 2008 and was surprised at how much better the quality was.

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#2323584 23-Sep-2019 22:16

Behodar:
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I remember seeing somewhere in Theresa Gattung's memoirs something along the lines of Telecom couldn't launch another GSM network in competition with Vodafone, as apparently the Government of the day wouldn't allow it, so they had to go with CDMA.

Mmmmm CDMA - from memory it had the worst voice quality of any phone I had ever used.

Your memory is different from mine; I switched from Vodafone to Telecom in 2008 and was surprised at how much better the quality was.

I would say that was due to HR (half rate) calls but that no longer happens

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#2323596 23-Sep-2019 23:12

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Spark Sport or Telecom XT

Telecom launching the CDMA2000 network instead of going straight from analogue to GSM which resulted in the rushed and corner cutting deployment of the XT Network. As for Spark Sport - I'm happy that Spark is giving the market some much needed competition and I hope as their platform matures that it shapes up as a strong competitor to Sky given how Sky has taken advantage of inertia and lack of competition for far too long.

I remember seeing somewhere in Theresa Gattung's memoirs something along the lines of Telecom couldn't launch another GSM network in competition with Vodafone, as apparently the Government of the day wouldn't allow it, so they had to go with CDMA.

Speaking of Steve Crow, fairly sure I saw him in some biker outfit, shopping at Noel Leeming in Albany yesterday afternoon.

@quickymart The issue was the 850Mhz they only had access to I am sure @sbiddle could confirm more around this

I think you're probably on the money John - admittedly it was a while ago that I saw that somewhere in her book (and even then she said that information had come from Roderick Deane).

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#2323731 24-Sep-2019 10:10

richms:

quickymart:

I remember seeing somewhere in Theresa Gattung's memoirs something along the lines of Telecom couldn't launch another GSM network in competition with Vodafone, as apparently the Government of the day wouldn't allow it, so they had to go with CDMA.

Mmmmm CDMA - from memory it had the worst voice quality of any phone I had ever used.

from my personal experience CDMA speech was way better than GSM was when I moved from Telecom to NEC and we had GSM phones. Terrible speech and the clicky , clicky on the car stereo and desktop PC speakers every time the phone did something.

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