http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000DF908-6D89-13CF-A73583027AF1010E
Anyone know anything?
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If you're outside your local area and somebody rings your landline number your call will be diverted to your mobile and you will pay for incoming call charges.
At present when you ring a mobile from a landline mobile Telecom get their margin on top of the interconnection fee paid to Vodafone - under the new system Telecom will get nothing at all since the divert is handled on Vodafone's network and will be billed to your mobile. Telecom want calls that go to a Vodafone local number to be classed seperately to calls to any other 7 digit PSTN number so Telecom could effectively bill you for calling a Vodafone local number.
If I were Vodafone I'd forget about Telecom completely, launch a mobile service with 300 mins of calls per month and a home 3G router with 5Gb of traffic for $100 per month and people will have no need to go near Telecom.
alasta:
Here's an interesting question, though: If Vodafone were to try to encourage people to drop their Telecom landlines, then Vodafone would have to come up with some alternative home broadband service. Maybe affordable Vodafone 3G Internet access isn't totally out of the realm of possibility after all...
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freitasm: That's what Vodafone Germany is already doing. I wouldn't mind seeing this around here, but the 3G infrastructure would have to be better - and GPRS as an alternative wouldn't make anyone happy, since it's way worst than dial-up.
I guess it would be more money to spend in infrastructure, money that is being put on the side for HSDPA?
Grantis: I'm fully aware that Vodafone in Germany are already doing this, I read the article! I'm talking about the NZ Market obviously.Hmmm. My point, perhaps not so clearly put, is that perhaps even before thinking on how the New Zealand market is unique, we should consider that it is part of an overall strategy for the entire group, not only to cater for the specific market landscape in this country.
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freitasm:Hmmm. My point, perhaps not so clearly put, is that perhaps even before thinking on how the New Zealand market is unique, we should consider that it is part of an overall strategy for the entire group, not only to cater for the specific market landscape in this country.
In other words, they probably just want to reproduce here a good experience from overseas, and in the process annoy Telecom New Zealand.
johnr: mmmmm I wonder who has the most $$$$ to fight this out
Grantis:johnr: mmmmm I wonder who has the most $$$$ to fight this out
Vodafone. But my point is that it will take f o r e v e r before we see any results for customers & like Freitasm says, HSDPA & ideally HSUPA would need to be implemented before the broadband component would be viable.
johnr: ....
The sharemarket did not react well to the news
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