Vodafone Announces Data Plans for iPad with Wi-Fi
Scoop NZ – New Zealand
Vodafone New Zealand today announced it will offer dedicated data plans for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G in New Zealand beginning July 23, 2010. The data plans for iPad will be available on a month by month basis, providing users with the freedom to activate …
Topics: 3G, New Zealand, New [...]
Vodafone Loses 25,000 Customers
National Business Review – New Zealand
For its March quarter, buoyed by XT woes, Vodafone enjoyed a net-gain of 11,000 customers. The quarter before that, it picked up 9000. But a reversal of fortune is revealed in the company’s latest accounts, just released by its UK parent.
Topics: Vodafone
2degrees Cites Rapid Growth in Retail Push
New Zealand Herald
New mobile telecommunications provider 2degrees is challenging established rivals by planning a national retail network. The third cellphone player – a minnow next to Telecom and Vodafone – is negotiating leases for CBD shops in…
Topics: 2degrees, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, telecommunications, Vodafone, XT
2degrees’ New Pre-Pay Offer: The Cheapest Around or a Con?
National Business Review – New Zealand
Last week, 2degrees introduced a new pre-pay offer for voice calls: Everyone 100, which gives you 100 minutes of calls for $30 – or 30 cents a minute, as it was phrased in various promotions and PR.
Topics: 2degrees, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, Vodafone
Vodafone Says: Save Up to 500% On Broadband In New Zealand
Scoop NZ – New Zealand
From this week Vodafone will give its new Easy, Ideal and Ultimate fixed line broadband customers up to 500% more data. They are also throwing in unlimited calls to a nominated Vodafone mobile as part of the deal.
Topics: broadband, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, telecommunications, unlimited calls, Vodafone
Last-Minute Vodafone Ploy Fails; ComCom Recommends Mobile Regulation
National Business Review – New Zealand
As expected, the Commerce Commission has recommended Communications Minister Steven Joyce reject voluntary price cuts offered by Telecom and Vodafone, and instead regulate mobile termination rates (MTR). On February 23, the watchdog recommended, in an unusual split decision, against regulating MTR (the rates phone companies charge each other when [...]
2degrees Slashes Wireless Rates in New Zealand Price War
New Zealand Herald
2degrees launched an aggressive calling plan yesterday that will challenge the prices Vodafone and Telecom are charging. The mobile carrier has dropped the cost of calls between networks by nearly a third, from 44c to 30c a minute, in a bid to increase its market share.
Topics: 2degrees, carrier, New Zealand, New Zealand [...]
Vodafone 3G Aervice Affected in Wellington
New Zealand Herald
Vodafone cellphones in central Wellington office buildings have reportedly experienced being cut off from services. IT worker John McElhiney said everyone at his office on the Terrace had been unable to connect to the Vodafone network since early yesterday afternoon.
Topics: 3G, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, Vodafone, Wellington
Vodafone “Revolutionises” Business Calling
Scoop NZ – New Zealand
Building on the success of Vodafone’s talkZoneZero tariffs, this new offer provides customers with a consistent and transparent pricing structure – starting from as little as $36 a month per user. Businesses with five or more users can manage and increase control of their spend at a time when budgets are [...]
Roaming Mobile Phone Costs Set To Fall As EU Rules Against Mobile Networks
Money High Street
The costs of using a mobile phone whilst travelling in Europe are set to fall as the European Court of Justice rejected an appeal from mobile phone operators, who were challenging a ruling to reduce their roaming fees.
Topics: Europe, legislation, New Zealand, Vodafone
2degrees Slashes Data Pricing; Hints at 3G Launch Date
National Business Review – New Zealand
2degrees is set to launch a new 2G data bundle later today, offering 50MB for $6. The new pre-pay plan is significantly cheaper than the telco’s casual data plan plan – until 4pm today it’s only data option – which charges a nosebleed 50 cents per megabyte, or the kind [...]
Telecom New Zealand Launches “Mostly” Free Mobile Facebook
National Business Review – New Zealand
In partnership with Facebook, Telecom is sponsoring a new site, 0.Facebook.com, that offers mobile access to the social network with zero data charges. It’s a capable “lightweight” version of the social network.
Topics: New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, Nokia, telecom, Vodafone, XT
Vodafone Pulls $12 Plan in Last-Gasp Bid to Avoid Regulation
National Business Review – New Zealand
Under cover of budget day, Vodafone is making a last-minute attempt to forestall regulation of mobile pricing. The telco has pulled its $12 Talk add-on from the market. The plan offered 200 minutes of calls to any landline, but for mobile only covered calls to other Vodafone customers – meaning [...]
Telecom Braces for $30m Earnings Hit
National Business Review – New Zealand
Reversing its original (split) decision of February 22, the Commerce Commission has today issued a preliminary recommendation that Communications Minister Steven Joyce reject voluntary rate cut offers from Telecom and Vodafone, and instead regulate mobile termination rates – which user advocate Tuanz says add $300 a year to the average [...]
Vodafone and Axia Team Up for Broadband Bid
Scoop NZ – New Zealand
Vodafone New Zealand Ltd., the country’s biggest mobile phone carrier, has announced it will partner with Canadian company Axia NetMedia
Corp. if it’s successful in its bid to build a new fibre network for the country.
Topics: broadband, carrier, fibre, New Zealand, New Zealand Telecom, telecom, telecommunications, Vodafone
