Vodafone upgrades billing centre
$1.5m of Sun kit for large project at telco
$1.5m of Sun kit for large project at telco
A Vodafone promotion with free domain name registration for twelve months draws DNC scrutiny
IBM's number two in New Zealand, Ken Tunnicliffe, has resigned as director of IBM Global Services in NZ. Tunnicliffe will join Vodafone as general manager, planning and strategy. His resignation takes effect at the end of July.
The announcement of a vendor to build Vodafone's New Zealand and Australian 3G network is expected soon, Vodafone NZ spokeswoman Sarah Williams says.
Despite widespread speculation that Nokia has been selected to build its New Zealand and Australian 3G network, Vodafone isn't commenting.
“We have different networks"
Vodafone is trying to better understand its customers, hoping to use IT to increase the degree of self-service and cut costs.
The motto “monitor, manage, model and maintain” is helping Vodafone New Zealand keep its IT spending in line with business needs, and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process.
Vodafone Australia and Vodafone New Zealand have outsourced IT operations to Hewlett-Packard Australia.
Vodafone aims to have a new packet-based network backbone in place by Christmas and, if things go according to plan, carrying live traffic by March.
Nokia only launching one GPRS phone in NZ
Telecom is avoiding the trap Vodafone fell into with its text messaging billing arrangement.