The XT Network still has issues and heads have started to roll. The spoofs continue to roll out. First there was the XT Network for sale on Trademe – disguised as a lemon. Now, never before seen footage of Dr Reynolds and his close knit team in the days immediately following the last big outage. […]
Announced today: Telecom is closing Ferrit. It’s no surprise to me. It’s finally been acknowledged that the site is no longer core to the company’s business strategy. Wow. It took three years and several hundred million dollars (at least) to work that out. The idea was lame right from the beginning. It added no benefit […]
Telecom has decided to extricate itself from the Fly Buys scheme at the end of the year saying that it wants to focus on providing better core services to it’s customers. Perhaps it’s also an indication that they are hurting financially. Their share price has taken a big tumble (along with many other stocks) and […]
Vodafone launched the pricing plans for the iPhone this morning at 10.00am. Pay $199 for the phone and $250/month on a two year contract and that’s $6,199 paid at the end of that term. Seems excessive? It is. Vodafone had a perfect opportunity to capture a big segment of Telecom’s market. I’ve been a Telecom […]
This is big news. I just finished watching the 6pm news via my DVD recorder (I hate the ads). Mike McRoberts, with little fanfare, announces that Vodafone have secured the rights to sell the iPhone later this year. There are iPhones in New Zealand now, running on both carriers (I think) but only via cracked […]