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Articles tagged with: Nz Communications
New Zealand's 2Degrees Changes CEO and Controlling Shareholder
New Zealand's long delayed 3rd mobile network, 2Degrees has announced yet another change in shareholders and lost its CEO on the eve of the network launch. Trilogy International Partners, currently a 26% shareholder in the firm has take control after swapping the 26% stake held by Hong Kong based General Enterprise Management Services (GEMS) for 8 percent of its own equity. more
Related Tags: 2degrees, play, New Zealand
New Zealand's 3rd Network Rebrands - Again
New Zealand's long-delayed 3rd mobile phone network, NZ Communications, has rebranded to 2degrees, as the countdown begins to its network launch in August 2009. NZ Communications (originally known as Econet Wireless) was granted a mobile license in 2001 when it formed an alliance with the Hautaki Charitable Trust which was allocated a 3G license at a discount price by the regulator. more
Related Tags: 2degrees, New Zealand
Landline Competition Improving Says NZ Regulator - Mobile Unaffected
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has released its 2008 telecommunications monitoring report which notes that while there has been increased competition within the country's landline market, the mobile market has been largely unaffected. more
Related Tags: 3g, vodafone, landline, benchmarking, commerce-commission, oecd, New Zealand
New Zealand Regulator Wants Lower Mobile Termination Rates
New Zealand's Commerce Commission has sent letters to the country's three mobile phone networks warning that it wants a reduction in their mobile termination rates. The three networks had sent submissions to the Commission to lower their rates voluntarily, but the Commission has replied saying that the cuts don't go far enough. more
Related Tags: sms, vodafone, tim, ovi, termination-rates, 3, commerce-commission, mobile-termination-rates, New Zealand
Vodafone Extends New Zealand 900Mhz License to 2031
Vodafone has completed a series of radio spectrum swaps in New Zealand and renewed its license in the 900Mhz band. The swap in January of two 4-MHz portions of spectrum between NZ Communications and the Crown came about following discussions involving all the mobile network operators. The Government can now amalgamate some spectrum it manages, which means more will become available for non-cellular uses. more
Related Tags: vodafone, mobile-broadband, radio-spectrum, 900mhz, New Zealand
Vodafone Signs Tower Sharing Deal with NZ Communications
New Zealand's 3rd mobile operator, NZ Communications says that it has inked a deal with Vodafone to rent space on up to 116 of the rival operator's towers. The company has delayed its launch several times citing problems with securing locations for its base stations, so the move should help accelerate its network rollout. more
Related Tags: base-station, roaming, 3g-license, vodafone, base-stations, commerce-commission, national-roaming, New Zealand
Further Delays for New Zealand's 3rd Mobile Network
New Zealand's third mobile operator, NZ Communications has again delayed its network launch - this time until late next year. The operator's most recent plan was to launch its network this coming October, but a report in the Business Day newspaper said that the company has only built 50 of the required 400 base stations it needs to launch services. more
Related Tags: roaming, huawei, 3g-license, commerce-commission, national-roaming, New Zealand
New Zealand Panel:Mobile Roaming Shouldn't be Subject to Price Regulation
WELLINGTON -(Dow Jones)- New Zealand's competition watchdog, the Commerce Commission, Tuesday recommended that the government not make mobile roaming services subject to price regulation. more
Related Tags: roaming, compete, New Zealand
New Zealand Mobile Market Passes 100% Penetration
As Vodafone and Telecom have announced their mid-year subscriber figures, the New Zealand mobile market has officially passed the 100% penetration mark. There were 4.25 million mobile subscribers in New Zealand at the end of June 2007, reflecting penetration of 101%. more
Related Tags: wcdma, idc, termination-rates, mobile-termination-rates
New Zealand Operator Signs Huawei Contract
The New Zealand arm of Econet Wireless, recently renamed as NZ Communications says that it has signed a contract with Huawei to build a nationwide cellular network. The company, which was granted a license over six years ago says that it will now take about 18 months to build its infrastructure. Huawei had signed a contract back in 2005 to build a core radio network in Auckland, although it is not known if any work was carried out. more
Related Tags: telecom-new-zealand, commerce-commission, national-roaming