Where?
Christchurch! Sheep and bogans. TCNZ is run out of Wellington and Auckland.
Kiwis who lust after a new iPhone may soon have a choice of service provider other than Vodafone. According to a report by New Zealand's National Business Review, Telecom New Zealand's retail chief Alan Gourdie said that the company is in "discussions - deep discussions - with Apple." Gourdie's brief disclosure came Wednesday …
Don't be such a knob.
Telecom is actually run by the Americans - it has been owned by AT&T for over a decade now. I should know, my dad was a senior technician, who ended up taking early retirement because of the new owners treated the Kiwi staff like sh*t when they took over.
That brings up another oddity - in the US, AT&T have the exclusive rights to support iPhone customers, however in NZ their subsidiary (NZ Telecom) lost out to Vodafone. Here in the UK however its O2 have the exclusive deal so Vodafone customers lose out. WTF? Does that mean a Kiwi Vodafone customer can't use his iPhone when visiting the UK?
The current Iphone (3G) certainly does work on the New Telecom XT network. Not only does it support the 850Mhz band they are using http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html (as well as the standard 2100Mhz) but I have a test SIM on the new network and I can personally confirm that it works just fine!
The old(er) 2G one won't work, of course as the new network is UMTS only.