How to waste $500M

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:24:27 +1200

I believe this was announced a while ago, but I only noticed when it was twittered today: Vodafone NZ is extending their network so that there is 900 MHz 3G coverage over much more of the country. I was quite elated reading that - the existing coverage is is not great, and it’s annoying having a very capable phone and not being able to use it as it was meant to be (especially when overpaying). However, after asking a few questions, it turns out this is actually bad news - the extended coverage won’t work with the world’s best phone (only PR people really dispute that). Since they’ve just extended the network, it seems pretty unlikely that they’re planning on a real upgrade any time soon, so this means that real coverage is further off, not closer. The release has a list of 14 phones that can be used (only 14!). These all look very uninteresting:

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How to waste $500M