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Agreed and a good point as to none of the key inside people, apart from the vodafone media rep are speaking up.
It is a forum of opinion though so speculation is to be expected, we all have bias one way or the other. Its just a shame that this has gone to court instead of being sorted by the people who in the end will fix it. Will be keen to see the outcome that best suits each companies customers.
ultmobnz: Why delay the launch, the interference will be there with the network live under commercial use or under test. As long as the techs are working to fix it then thats all that should matter.
Reply:Sounds like a classic case of the marketing dept not talking to the tech dept.
Well, I wondered about the choice of Richard Hammond for their launch. It's all very well and good for him to be saying "I have test driven blah blah blah" but he made no mention of having also crashed a rocket car and spent months in a coma. A parallel situation seems to have raised its ugly head with the spectre of a long drawn out court case and the attendant injunctions against telecom going live with their new baby.
After years of Telecom bashing in comparison to the apparent good guy, Vodafone, can we now see the hideous truth that Vodafone is the greedy mutinational and Telecom is the cuddly Kiwi?.
Can I clear a few things up:
Vodafone use TI contractors to do the 3G upgrades: Infratel (go team!!?!), Skycom and Kordia. Downers currently have the Vodafone maintenance contract - Downers also have it for Telecom and TelstraClear.
Vodafone are not using "Generic gear", they are using the real deal - proper kit from the globally leading cellular equipment manufacturer, already deployed in many countries, tried, tested and absolutely fit for purpose.
The same goes for their antenna plant - all brand new, properley installed. In fact Vodafone is using this project to UPGRADE their existing GSM antenna plant.
Delayed txts etc. have nothing to do with the 3G upgrades.
I can't comment on the interference issues, as I know nothing! (German accect, a la Sgt. Shultz).
Seriously though, we will all have to wait and see what the outcome of the legal proceedings are.
And for all those people bagging Vodafone and looking forward to Telecom's XT network - wouldn't it be a good idea to look at both networks before deciding??!?
Now based in Perth WA.
Wob: I can't comment on the interference issues, as I know nothing! (German accect, a la Sgt. Shultz).
Seriously though, we will all have to wait and see what the outcome of the legal proceedings are.
And for all those people bagging Vodafone and looking forward to Telecom's XT network - wouldn't it be a good idea to look at both networks before deciding??!?
Antzzz: Surprised that no-one has raised the issue of opportunistic roaming - as we've had only 1 GSM/WCDMA network in NZ for so long my guess would be that most GSM/WCDMA phones are set to automatic network selection - mine certainly was.
Now with NZ Comms around and them starting to deploy their network means that phones may be spending time trying to roam on to their network where the signal is stronger. I'm not certain what the effect of this would be, but I'm guessing that it could cause issues as phones try to switch back and forth between the networks?
Anyone in the trade know if there have been any directives out from VF about ensuring phones are set to manual network selection?
This is OT for this thread, start a new thread if you wish, but I am near certain Vodafone don't have a roaming agreement with NZC this way around (there is of course one in reverse to let NZC customers onto VF when out of NZC network coverage) so your phone wouldn't actually be able to connect/be used.
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