Cellular network operator Vodafone is launching it's HSDPA upgrade today, promising higher speeds for customers who purchase new devices capable of using the enhanced wireless broadband technology.
Vodafone New Zealand plans to launch its High Speed Data Packet Access (HSDPA) upgrade to its 3G network shortly, says spokeswoman Tracey Palmer.
Next year could see local ISPs Orcon and Compass reselling Vodafone’s mobile voice and data services, if the wholesale agreements signed last week are carried through into product offerings.
Vodafone will make little comment about a massive trans-Tasman infrastructure project which industry sources say is running late, with a potential large cost over-run.
It’s not often I hear a statement as absolutely and fundamentally true as the one made by Woosh’s chief financial officer, Gary Neil, last week.
Vodafone is trying to head off regulation of the mobile market with a last-ditch offer to the government.
Vodafone's plans to introduce a competing converged telephone service took one step closer towards becoming true yesterday when the the Commerce Commission issued a draft determination on interconnection access to Telecom's fixed telephone network.
Vodafone’s launch of its 3G services a year ago ran into a hitch. The live link to gold medal men’s triathlon winner, Hamish Carter, worked well, but because he was at the Tepid Baths swimming pool complex in Auckland, Carter was reluctant to pan the camera phone around to demonstrate its clarity.
Vodafone's write-down of assets to the tune of £23.5 billion or NZ$69 billion weighed heavily on its group results for the year to March. The mobile operator announced a loss of £21.8 billion or almost NZ$64 billion, the biggest red-ink haemorrhage in European business history.
The theme running through the reaction to Minister of Communications David Cunliffe’s thorough and tough regulatory package is one of total surprise.
New Zealand will get a taste of the next generation high-speed network technology for GSM/UMTS operators later today when Vodafone demonstrates HSDPA to media.
Even as Vodafone New Zealand talks up its new 3G service, now dubbed 3G Broadband, questions are being asked about whether the technology Vodafone uses can support one of broadband's killer applictions: voice over IP (VoIP).
Vodafone says its investment in its 3G network is paying off through increased customer numbers and steady revenue despite lower overall pricing for users.
The Commerce Commission is sticking to its guns about regulating mobile termination rates (MTRs), the per-minute charges Telecom and Vodafone charge other telcos for for landing calls on their networks, in a draft report to David Cunliffe, the minister of communications.
Vodafone 3G customers who find themselves transmitting data on the slower GPRS network could be in for a nasty shock when they receive their bill. A billing problem has seen one company charged extra for GPRS traffic regardless of how much 3G traffic it had remaining.