New Telecom New Zealand roaming partners?

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#10297 15-Nov-2006 11:25

Interesting article on DNA, talking about Megasoft providing Telecom New Zealand Intl (TNZI) with roaming services:

Xius, the telecom division of Megasoft Ltd., will provide roaming and interoperability solutions to the seven cellular operations of Telecom New Zealand International (TNZI).

The company will also partner with TNZI to provide similar services to emerging mobile network operators and mobile virtual networks operators (MVNOs) across the world, according to G V Kumar MD & CEO Megasoft.

So, Telecom NZ Intl will provide emerging and MVNO service across the world? And most importantly, will this deal help increaee the number of countries where Telecom NZ customers can use their mobile phones?

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#52417 15-Nov-2006 12:33

Solves their Roaming Problem

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#52433 15-Nov-2006 14:03

TNZI are a considerable player in the international connectivity space and as such by leveraging off their existing capability they are able to provide emerging mobile players, through the assistance of 3rd parties such as Xius, with capability that may only have been available to larger mobile operators.

This has nothing to do with expanding the CDMA international roaming capability for TNZ customers.

This announcment relates to other business oportunities that TNZI are involved with. and is completely unrelated to existing TNZ CDMA roaming capability.

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#52436 15-Nov-2006 14:24

NealR: This has nothing to do with expanding the CDMA international roaming capability for TNZ customers.

So... what you are saying is that Telecom customers would still need to be provided with a loan GSM handset in order to use the roaming services provided by Xius?

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#52437 15-Nov-2006 14:27

What I am saying is that the services provided by Xius through TNZI and the existing TNZ GSM roaming service (loan phone) are not related. They are seperate services that do not have any intersection.

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#53443 23-Nov-2006 22:51

Telecom lunches new samsung world phone and next year world PDA phones that have roaming using the 02 deal to 160 countries using dual CDMA GSM handsets.

Watch this space, 02 has a big roaming footprint, better than VNZ advertised 100 countries so this will be part of TNZ's answer to the roaming issue, they just need to get WCDMA?CDMA roaming on 850 and other bands so they can roam on Telstras G network,

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#53445 23-Nov-2006 23:09

You mean O2, not 02, right?

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#53446 23-Nov-2006 23:10

yup thats right, O2

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