From http://www.theindependent.co.nz/story3.html
Telecom risks being forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new mobile platform within the next two years.
Some analysts think the closure of the last Australian mobile network using CDMA technology will force Telecom to follow suit.
"We believe Telecom will be compelled to deploy a national GSM-based network in New Zealand within the next two years," sharebroker Goldman Sachs JB Were said in a report last week.