Telstra re-enters New Zealand with MVNO offer
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 at 5:07 AM PST In General
TelstraClear, the New Zealand arm of Australian Telstra, is to re-enter the country’s mobile market by becoming an MVNO on New Zealand Telecom’s mobile network.
TelstraClear’s initial offering includes a free Nokia (NYSE: NOK) 6275i handset, with national calls to fixed-line and mobiles costing NZ$0.29 per minute and 500 texts to any network, for NZ$20 a month. Additionally, customers can also call a mobile or landline in the UK, the US, Australia, Ireland and Canada for NZ$0.40 a minute.
At the moment, the service is only available on a 24-month contract for customers that subscribe to the operator’s broadband and fixed-line packages, though TelstraClear’s Steve Jackson said that there could be potential in the future for a standalone mobile service. “Nothing’s ruled in - nothing’s ruled out,” he said.
TelstraClear had previously operated an MVNO using Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) New Zealand’s network, which was shut down in June 2007.
[Via: nbr.co.nz]
