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Bung: How would you pronounce it without sounding like that PBX company?
Buzz Bumble:KiwiNZ:
out of curiosity, you seem a tad heated about the cost, are you a shareholder of the group?
Nope, but at the end of the day the likelihood is that Telecom will use it (and paying the twi who made the decision a big fat bonus) as an excuse to raise prices again - it's always the customer who ends up paying.
And on the topic of the costs involved, in the letterbox today we got a pointless, full colour, glossy postcard telling us that Telecom NZ will be changing their name mid-year, but "nothing will change" (plans, etc. all stay the same).
They're also going to have to redo the signage on all their "free" wif-fi hotspots.
Better start collecting "Telecom NZ" labelled bits and pieces to sell on TradeMe in 15 years time. ;-)
Bung: How would you pronounce it without sounding like that PBX company?
Sideface
Buzz Bumble:KiwiNZ:
out of curiosity, you seem a tad heated about the cost, are you a shareholder of the group?
Nope, but at the end of the day the likelihood is that Telecom will use it (and paying the twi who made the decision a big fat bonus) as an excuse to raise prices again - it's always the customer who ends up paying.
And on the topic of the costs involved, in the letterbox today we got a pointless, full colour, glossy postcard telling us that Telecom NZ will be changing their name mid-year, but "nothing will change" (plans, etc. all stay the same).
They're also going to have to redo the signage on all their "free" wif-fi hotspots.
Better start collecting "Telecom NZ" labelled bits and pieces to sell on TradeMe in 15 years time. ;-)
Buzz Bumble: How about:
- "* - the company formally known as Telecom NZ".
- "Splat".
- "Dead bug".
- "Knitter's mess".
;-)
Of course, a quick Google search turns up a lot of "Spark" names already in New Zealand for various things, so they can't even trademark it (at least not without the messy splat symbol attached).
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Journeyman: I think rebranding to Spark is a bit crap, but I think ShowmeTV is worse. TVNZ's marketing for TV2 for all of last year was celebrities saying "Show me drama... Show me comedy... Show me TV2".
Also, ShowTV might be a bit upset.
Really should have called it SparkTV.
Two New Zealand companies with similar names to Telecom's newly announced internet television venture, ShowmeTV, say resulting consumer confusion will have "massive implications" on the growth of their businesses.
The directors of Show TV, a direct-to-consumer advertiser, and ShowMe, an online retailer, say neither brand has any involvement with the telecommunications provider's new online television business, which is expected to debut in the next few months.
ahmad: Why didn't they just rebrand themselves as *?
Buzz Bumble: They should have simply called it TelecomTV ... or maybe just "Over-priced-and-Dead-in-Three-Years". ;-)
Realistically they shouldn't be doing TV at all. It's almost as silly as when ihug was buying Sky Cinemas. :-\ Companies should stick to the actual business they're meant to be in and not greedily try to "rule the world" / "do everything".
Buzz Bumble: Realistically they shouldn't be doing TV at all. It's almost as silly as when ihug was buying Sky Cinemas. :-\ Companies should stick to the actual business they're meant to be in and not greedily try to "rule the world" / "do everything".
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