giants join 3g forces for launch micheal sainsbury
But Optus and Vodafone already lag behind the other Australian 3G alliance between Hutchison and Telstra, which is in the last stages of being finalised. Telstra will pay $450 million for 50 per cent of Hutchison's network, which began operations last April. Telstra will also spend about $150 million on its core network. While this would appear to give Optus and Vodafone a slight cost advantage over their bigger rival, Telstra has the significant advantage of buying into a fully operational network.
This should allow it to avoid much of the pain of a start-up network. Hutchison experienced a raft of glitches last year during its initial operations, and observers have warned that Optus and Vodafone might expect the same problems.
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