2degrees announcement 23 March 2015: the future?

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#1264148 20-Mar-2015 15:46

robertsona: Dumping Rhys Darby and taking on Kills & Moon as brand ambassadors

They would be looking for the X Factor so they wont do

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#1264149 20-Mar-2015 15:48

jarledb: "A major development regarding the future of the business" sounds ominous to me. Are they being bought by someone? Shutting down business? Changing business model because of losses?

Or am I the only one that think that was worded in a less than positive way?

Buying an ISP and entering the "landline phone and Broadband" markets would be a major business decision. Buying Snap makes lots of sense.

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#1264151 20-Mar-2015 15:50

...or are they taking a lead from the Telecom/Spark brand transition and changing their name to "Numeral"?

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#1264152 20-Mar-2015 15:50

they are skipping 4G and 5G and moving straight onto 6G.

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#1264154 20-Mar-2015 15:51

NonprayingMantis: yep agree. If they were buying somebody - like Snap, then I'm sure they would say something like "an EXCITING major development" or something like that.

This is an industry where a minor price drop is an exciting major development, and even price increases have a similar positive spin on them. Could be anything really.

The Snap buy-out seems the most likely. Snap hasn't exactly been delivering on their "everything new" promise, and it's possible it has just been delayed while this deal was done.

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#1264156 20-Mar-2015 15:54

Whatever it is I hope its good news for them as they have been instrumental in driving innovation and reducing costs and on all the networks, and I say that as a VF mobile customer.

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#1264164 20-Mar-2015 16:03

Likely candidate is the Snap acquisition (or another ISP?)
Second guess is they have been bought out by an international player.

Also, can someone with a NBR sub say whether there's any new suggestions in here? http://t.co/nRXdcyDjJc

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#1264168 20-Mar-2015 16:16

The NBR speculation end up in the same position as here: a landline play with either Snap, CallPlus or MyRepublic.

Still, rumours.

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#1264192 20-Mar-2015 16:51

google Caching is freakin awesome

story that has somehow disappeared (so could be removed because it was wrong, or because it was right), but it still exists on google cache, so here is the link

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e3UhQ3-GCFIJ:telcoreview.co.nz/story/2degrees-no-not-sold-buying/+&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nz

" 2degrees is expected to announce on Monday that it has purchased Snap Internet for $26 million, including $10 million in cash. The Kiwi telco is announcing ‘a major development regarding the future of the business’ on Monday morning. Discussions between Snap Internet and 2degrees have been underway for some time according to some in the industry. Last week the deal was believed to have been awaiting final shareholder approval."

etc etc

(ETA: actually it seems to me the whole of the telco review site is down, for me at least, so maybe they haven't pulled this story at all)

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#1264194 20-Mar-2015 16:52

robertsona: Dumping Rhys Darby and taking on Kills & Moon as brand ambassadors

His contract was ended at the end of 2014, hence the reason he's no longer in the ads.

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#1264195 20-Mar-2015 16:54

This link works http://techday.com/story/2degrees-no-not-sold-buying/

There's actually not a lot of information there, but the fact they provide a purchase price lends some credibility.

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#1264197 20-Mar-2015 16:58

NonprayingMantis: (ETA: actually it seems to me the whole of the telco review site is down, for me at least, so maybe they haven't pulled this story at all)

All TechDay infrastructure seems to be a bit unstable lately - in the last week or so their sites can take anything from 30 - 45 seconds to load to not loading at all. They need some help there.

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#1264203 20-Mar-2015 17:25

This is a fun game, we should do this again some time ;)

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#1264212 20-Mar-2015 17:38

Lol

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#1264270 20-Mar-2015 18:34

Behodar:
freitasm: Will keep this thread updated but you can obviously speculate :)

Don't mind if I do!

2degrees bought out by Skinny. Spectrum being used to roll out a shiny new EVDO rev B network, complete with WAP portal and a range of Blackberry devices.

Oh wait, you wanted sensible speculation?

Edit: Not as fun when three of you swoop in while typing

No, latest is Skinny is a MVNO of Vodafone, as they are promoting being on the largest 4G network; unless of course 2degrees have overtaken the other two and now have the largest 4G network.

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