Vodafone NZ moves for early 3G launch date

date: May 30, 2001

Vodafone New Zealand local unit has confirmed it will introduce early launch date for 3G services in New Zealand.

Vodafone was at the moment finalising vendor financing deals with some Scandinavian network firms said the chief executive of Vodafone, Grhame Maher and added the "3G launch date would be sooner than people think", however no date was given for live commercial launch.

The move by Vodafone would put pressure on Telecom which just sign a $200million contract to buy 2.5G CDMA network that can be upgraded to 3G. It could force Telecom to shred its 2.5G (GPRS) network service plan and instead focus migrating the exiting network to 3G using the cdma2000 standard.

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