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TEL
14/05/2012 08:30
GENERAL
REL: 0830 HRS Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited
GENERAL: TEL: Telecom announces 4G customer trial
MEDIA RELEASE
14 May, 2012
Telecom announces 4G customer trial
Telecom announced today that it will be conducting live customer trials of
Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology later this year in preparation
for the evolution of its XT network to 4G.
Telecom CEO, Paul Reynolds, said Telecom is committed to remaining at the
forefront of mobile technology, evolving its world-class, all 3G, XT network
to deliver the best mobile experience to customers.
"Future network investment will be based on maintaining our network
leadership position with a particular focus on accommodating the explosive
growth in mobile data and continued rise of smartdevices.
"We will progressively adopt 4G network capability, starting with a customer
trial later this year using LTE technology. The Ministry of Economic
Development is yet to announce its detailed plans for the auction of 700mhz
spectrum, which will be important for widespread, cost effective, 4G
deployment. But Telecom nevertheless intends to continue on and build
real-world experience of 4G operations through this trial.
"To that end, we are currently conducting a technology selection process,
with the aim to have the trial service operational with selected business and
consumer customers before the end of 2012.
"4G will deliver an even faster mobile data experience for customers and
underpin the performance of more and more advanced smartdevices and the
applications and services they run.
"It opens up opportunities for our business customers to harness 4G's
capabilities to deliver new applications in areas such as cloud computing,
mobility, video and collaboration tools.
"Telecom customers can be confident of having access to the best mobile
services today and in the future," Dr Reynolds said.
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For more information:
Stephanie Fergusson
PR and Media Advisor, Telecom New Zealand
0272822267
Carmela Salisbury
PR and Media Manager, Gen-i
0274895224
Stefan Knight
Head of Investor Relations
0272529438
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