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To: djane who wrote (4318)	4/30/1999 5:50:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 29987

Lies by Telecom and Vodafone They do NOT want the spectrum auction to go ahead. They are enjoying a duopoly and when competitors install cdmaOne networks, they'll find their extorquerationate margins ripped to bits. Vodafone is operating GSM and doing just fine. Telecom is operating analogue and TDMA and doing just fine, but will probably replace their analogue with cdmaOne with an upgrade path to cdma2000, starting sooner rather than later because Vodafone is eating their lunch. --------------------------------------------------------------- "It would have been more convenient for us if the auction had proceeded as planned," said Clive Litt, spokesman for Telecom New Zealand, the nation's former monopoly telecom company. "But there's nothing we can do about it." Mark Champion, spokesman for Vodafone NZ Ltd., also said his company would have preferred for the auction to go ahead as scheduled. -------------------------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, Telecom has heaps of spectrum in the 820 MHz area to install cdmaOne any time they like. The auction was delayed a year and the cost to NZ is in the $$billions because people are paying heaps for minutes and there is the opportunity cost of people not using the services because they are too expensive. Off topic rant follows - Click Next! Apartheid didn't work in USA or South Africa and it isn't going to work here, but there is a LOT of effort going into trying to make it work. The privileged minority needs to have some convenient test to identify who gets the goodies. With gene chip arrays, the Maoris should be able to come up with some DNA marker to identify who is a member of the superior race and who is a mere Pakeha or Tangata Alien. Anyway, the Waitangi treaty wasn't an agreement of sufficient substance to apply now because many Maori tribes did not agree to the treaty. Also, the treaty was unilaterally abrogated by the British so a third of it is defunct and there is nothing much that NZ can do about it. If it is true that the remnants of the treaty are valid, then it seems fair enough that Maori have the spectrum rights in their traditional tribal areas because a third of the treaty said they could keep all their forest, fish, land and stuff so long as they wanted to. The right to shine flashlights, make a lot of noise, shine cdmaOne beams and other emr around in their tribal land should be part of their possessions. It doesn't seem right that other people should be given the right to shine torches and cdmaOne signals in their place if they were specifically given property rights to their place. I just disagree that tribal property can be sensibly maintained in a racially purist form. Anyway, they didn't really have full rights to their property because Queen Victoria was made Chief Boss, which by definition means boss of property, because that is all there is. It's a real mess and was a stupid agreement in the first place. Well, a partial agreement with many tribes not part of it, so one could say they each have their own country. Fat chance of making that work! Maurice