Orcon have delayed the start of their virtual mobile network (running on Vodafone's system) until about August because they didn't want to get 'lost in the noise' of Telecoms new network, and subsequent publicity.  Now 2 Degrees is about to launch in August (probably late Aug...) so I'm thinking they don't want the same thing to happen, maybe they'll delay it further?  Pure speculation on my part, but it makes sense.  Shame really, this was meant to happen as early as September 2007, way before Econet was about to launch (see my Mar 2007 post on Geekzone here).  If I had a choice of supporting a virtual mobile network operator or a new cellular company, well there's no choice really.