With Telecoms highlighted issues, Vodafone, Telecom and 2degrees site co location and Frequency issues, capacity issues and the LTE future roll outs, is it time for an Infrastructure provider to be set up to provide the mobile networks through out the country and all Telcos wholesale off that?
It is being started and done overseas and due to its inception coverage areas for all networks are greater, no network can claim better coverage or performance than the other, just better customer service, pricing and value adds as differenuators.
KPI is on up time and service delivery and it is governed by a commission, it could be a public company but even have Govt funding... probably need that.
One good reason is better urban, rural and tourist cell coverage, both networks have adequate networks but cannot justify large investment in rural or special tourist routes. But an infrastructure provider can as they can sell to all networks and clip the ticket on all trafic.
We could quite simply offer mobile to more places and have real choice and have a back bone that is renumerated on performance and reliability not just sales.
Seriously can Vodafone, Telecom and 2degrees even afford to upgrade entire networks to LTE etc in the future with falling revenues and more competition.
This would surely open up competition and provide us with more options.
Its a thought and worth discussing as it is happening overseas and NZ is not a wealthy country and maybe this is one option for better mobility nationwide going forward