so vodafone is expanding their 3g coverage in new zealand but for broadband users it will mean nothing wouldn't it? look at vodafone's current mobile broadband plan:
$34.95 for 3gb
extra $10 doubles this to 6gb
so $44.95 for 6gb
$0.50 cents per megabyte after 6gb.
vodafone dont allow you to do unlimited $10 topups. their argument is that their network cant handle lots of downloaders. so what's the point of expanding your 3g coverage when your current network can't handle for example, all of telecom's hundreds of thousands of fixed line broadband customers switching to mobile broadband?
vodafone could really compete with fixed line broadband if they put more capacity into their mobile broadband network and offered unlimited $10 double data topups. if you did this, then for $54.95 you could offer a 12gb cap, and for $64.95 you could offer a 24gb cap and so on.