Mq,
Re: NZ CDMA (and other stuff)
<< Anyway, next year there will be CDMA, analogue, TDMA, GSM, ADSL, GEO WWeb, fibre etc all competing for customers. Globalstar will be coming in a year or two too >>
Freedom of choice. I love it. Meantime, Elian Gonzalez is home. I'm pleased.
>> Telecom NZ confirms 3G intentions
Reuters staff
28 June 2000
Telecom Corporation of New Zealand planned to bid for third-generation spectrum, scheduled for auction on July 10, but chief executive Theresa Gattung said bids in New Zealand were unlikely to be as high as in Britain.
"Yes, we're going to bid," Gattung told reporters after speaking at a business lunch in Melbourne.
But she said the board of Telecom's 80 percent-owned AAPT Ltd, Australia's third-ranked telecommunications group, had yet to decide whether to bid on 3G spectrum in Australia.
Gattung said if New Zealand companies paid as much as had been paid in foreign 3G spectrum auctions, each block in New Zealand would go for NZ$400 million.
But she said Australasian companies could not afford to spend that kind of money and had enough spare spectrum capacity to meet their near term needs for high speed wireless and multimedia services.
"I simply think that in Australasia, unlike elsewhere, there isn't a need to get more spectrum simply to support today's growth for capacity reasons," she said.
"So it's unlikely that the prices would bid as high. And of course the scale issues - it's just a much smaller market," she said.
Gattung said Telecom NZ was likely to spend more on network infrastructure in 2000/01 than the NZ$600 million it had spent this year.
"It is likely our capital expenditure will be even higher next year as we roll out the new CDMA cellular technology across New Zealand, at the same time as AAPT rolls out CDMA in Australia," she said at the business lunch. <<
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>> New Zealand's Clear won't bid for 3G
Reuters staff
28 June 2000
Telecommunications company Clear Communications said on Wednesday it would not take part in New Zealand's upcoming auction of third generation (3G) mobile spectrum.
"We looked very closely at participating in the forthcoming 3G spectrum auction and, after an extensive business case analysis, have chosen to deliver current and 3G mobility services through means other than owning our own network," Clear marketing and online services director Ian Scherger said.
Clear said it would continue its strategy of partnering a network provider for 3G services, which would enable it to concentrate on its investments in fixed networks, LMDS and Internet services.
Clear already has a on selling relationship with Vodafone for second generation mobile services.
The New Zealand government is due to auction the four blocks of mobile spectrum on July 10.
However the High Court will hear an appeal on July 4 for an injunction on the spectrum auction bought by privately-owned Internet service provider Ihug. <<
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