Comments on: Is Telecom really doing this? http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/ NZ Internet, Media and Business Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:02:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Telecom XT Outage: Unacceptable « Lance Wiggs http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/#comment-16144 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:53:38 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2178#comment-16144 [...] Telecom XT Outage: Unacceptable Published December 14, 2009 NZ Business Leave a Comment Tags: network outage, NZ Business, Telecom XT The other day I noted that Telecom seemed to be ramping up data use sources on the XT network, asking “Is Telecom really doing this?“ [...]

]]> By: bobjohnson http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/#comment-16141 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:23:58 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2178#comment-16141 the AT&T thing is a total red herring. all the iphone customers on AT&T have unlimited date plans. Yes, UNLIMITED. this means tens or even hundreds of GBs of data from the high users.
In contrast,the typical mobile data plan here is 1GB, and the largest is the 4GB(+4GB free) plan on XT.

No comparison at all really.

]]> By: Q http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/#comment-16084 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:53:12 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2178#comment-16084 There has been a big deal made about the investment in backhaul from cell sites (as a differentiator) so pushing the mobile data is perhaps a great way to monetise this?

I think in the US they had all you can eat plans on mobile data here they charge per MB or have a cap which you then get charged beyond. So I’m sure iPhones as high usage devices would be welcome.

It’s easy to run an iPhone on XT just buy it from the apple store and insert your sim. The business model that Apple runs is interesting, this post explains some of it, and I’m sure they would have specific demands of any carrier..
http://gigaom.com/2009/12/09/who-is-getting-rich-off-the-iphone/

]]> By: Rob http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/#comment-16077 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:05:03 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2178#comment-16077 In the US they offer ‘unlimited’ usage plans, unlike in NZ, where usage has tiny little caps, which means the usage won’t exceed their capacity. The amount of data they offer and the price of data in proportional to the capacity. If they offered unlimited data usage, then no doubt usage would overload their capacity.

]]> By: Quentin http://lancewiggs.com/2009/12/12/is-telecom-realy-doing-this/#comment-16075 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:05:41 +0000 http://lancewiggs.com/?p=2178#comment-16075 I heard a rumour that xt cell sites have a fibre backbone so perhaps they won’t have the same problems

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