I came across an article on Stuff this morning. It's mostly about e-readers, but this one paragraph was interesting:
"As for Apple, local market conditions will influence how the iPad is sold in this country. Telecom's inability to offer iPhone bundles, for example, comes down to Apple's insistence on certain minimum order sizes and insistence on no discounting to move old stock. For all its size, Telecom is still not big enough to fulfil those terms because it can't shift stock internationally like Vodafone."
It doesn't say the source of this information, and I can't recall ever hearing this reason being offered before for why Telecom doesn't sell the iPhone.
So just how correct is this statement?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3569669/Will-ereaders-save-the-newspaper-business