2degrees will launch on Wednesday 5 August 2009

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#239798 28-Jul-2009 15:40

So sounds like those of us who want to snag a cool number might be better purchasing a sim rather than waiting for the Chinwag one.

Jonathan

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#239802 28-Jul-2009 15:50

great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

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#239803 28-Jul-2009 15:53

ahmad: Wow 10 days delivery?!

You havent posted anything recently have you? That seems pretty common on standard post - fastpost not much better. I hope DSE do get my sims on the way to me on the 30th so that I can get the pick of numbers - otherwise I will just go into a dse and buy some since there are some numbers that I want to get if available.

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#239804 28-Jul-2009 15:55

YAY. 8 days until real cellphone competition in New Zealand. Finally.

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#239806 28-Jul-2009 15:59

richms:
ahmad: Wow 10 days delivery?!

You havent posted anything recently have you? That seems pretty common on standard post - fastpost not much better. I hope DSE do get my sims on the way to me on the 30th so that I can get the pick of numbers - otherwise I will just go into a dse and buy some since there are some numbers that I want to get if available.

I post stuff on a weekly basis. 10 days is extremely conservative even for NZ post.

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#239809 28-Jul-2009 16:02

Awsome. they should post the SIM's out early though so we get them on time

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#239813 28-Jul-2009 16:13

kobiak: great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

You say that as if it has been right before :-P

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#239817 28-Jul-2009 16:21

tonyhughes:
kobiak: great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

You say that as if it has been right before :-P

well, it was mentioned on geekzone that wikipedia had info on new 2deegree

s CEO before it was announced/posted on news websites... and wikipedia also have info of 6th Aug for more then 2 weeks now.

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#239819 28-Jul-2009 16:26

kobiak:
tonyhughes:
kobiak: great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

You say that as if it has been right before :-P

well, it was mentioned on geekzone that wikipedia had info on new 2deegree

s CEO before it was announced/posted on news websites... and wikipedia also have info of 6th Aug for more then 2 weeks now.

So it's wrong, because it's 5th August...

FWIW, use Wikipedia with caution. It's a good source but I wouldn't use it as the ultimate source - it's certainly not authoritative in my view.

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#239844 28-Jul-2009 17:55

Is there live streaming of the press conference? If not, can freitasm please live blog it?

Can we please tweet you questions to ask 2degrees?

Question for 2°: Would you be here if you didn't get that Maori spectrum?

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#239847 28-Jul-2009 17:57

freitasm:
kobiak:
tonyhughes:
kobiak: great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

You say that as if it has been right before :-P

well, it was mentioned on geekzone that wikipedia had info on new 2deegree

s CEO before it was announced/posted on news websites... and wikipedia also have info of 6th Aug for more then 2 weeks now.

So it's wrong, because it's 5th August...

FWIW, use Wikipedia with caution. It's a good source but I wouldn't use it as the ultimate source - it's certainly not authoritative in my view.

You say that as if we were being completely serious :-P

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#239875 28-Jul-2009 18:47

hope they have mobile tv :-)

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#239883 28-Jul-2009 18:58

kobiak:
tonyhughes:
kobiak: great news. looks like wikipedia was right again :)

You say that as if it has been right before :-P

well, it was mentioned on geekzone that wikipedia had info on new 2deegree

s CEO before it was announced/posted on news websites... and wikipedia also have info of 6th Aug for more then 2 weeks now.

I'm surprised by this because Wikipedia is not meant to be a 'gossip' website, everything is meant to be referenced back to something authoritative.